The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities.

About Robin Benway

Robin Benway is an author of young adult fiction from Orange County, California, US, most known for her novel Far from the Tree, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

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The older she got, the more human her parents seemed, and that was one of the scariest things in the world. She missed being little, when they were the all-knowing gods of her world.

—Robin Benway in Far from the Tree

You know how sometimes you realize you're doing or saying the wrong thing, but you just can't stop yourself? You can literally hear the words coming out of your mouth and you just want to shove them back in because the real you, the good you, would never want to be this way, but you just keep going?

—Robin Benway in Also Known As

That's when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people's lives.

—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver

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Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street and there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and sensual and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually fall in love, and in those moments, you can actually know the taste of her kiss, the feel of her skin against yours, the sound of her laugh, how she'll look at you and make you whole. And then she's gone, and in the five seconds afterward, you mourn her loss with more sadness than you'll ever admit to.

—Jonathan Tropper

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

—e. e. cummings

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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift

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Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

—John Keats

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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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