The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
Robin WassermanFor me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.
Robin WassermanThey 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.
Robin WassermanNot that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?
Robin WassermanFull Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time
Robin WassermanThey ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.
Robin Wasserman