{"author":"Robin Wasserman","author_id":"Robin+Wasserman","total_quotes":23,"quotes":[{"text":"I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["cell","disappointment","expectations","life","living","memories","memory","parents"],"id":694,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"Cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["action","cause","cause-and-effect","cliche","effect","life","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","result"],"id":11904,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["change","law","mortal-instruments"],"id":16428,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["best-friends","end-of-series","friendship","greed","robin-wasserman","sad","seven-deadly-sins"],"id":30148,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["matter","teenagers","lit "],"id":45251,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["conformity","law","society"],"id":68992,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["ask","forbidden-knowledge","knowledge","questions","questions-and-answers"],"id":72943,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["betrayal","love","trust"],"id":73487,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and your favorite actors, singers, YouTube sensations- are fallible. Adults don't know all, and what they do know, they often won't tell you- because they've got their own agendas, or because they want to shield you from the hard truths 'for your own good.' Adults lie, they betray, they screw up in every way possible...","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["adults","childhood","growing-up","life"],"id":82160,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["god","religion"],"id":92215,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}