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

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About Robin Benway

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Robin Benway is an author of young adult fiction from Orange County, USA, 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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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

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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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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.

—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver

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