--- title: "1 Hard truths Quotes By Robin Wasserman" description: "1 Hard truths quotes by Robin Wasserman. Plus more from Robin Wasserman and more Hard truths sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/robin-wasserman-11713_adults_one-of-the-greatest-tragedies-of-growing_1529471.png" --- > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/one-of-the-greatest-tragedies-of-growing-up-is-the-discovery-that/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/robin-wasserman-11713_adults_one-of-the-greatest-tragedies-of-growing_1529471.png) ## Other authors on Hard truths - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-carl-sagan-20994.jpg) Carl Sagan 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hard-truths/carl-sagan/) - [Alice Walsh 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hard-truths/alice-walsh/) ## More by Robin Wasserman > [They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/they-ask-how-the-universe-is-arranged-philosophers-mathematicians-and/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/there-are-some-moments-you-d-rather-sleep-through-pass-from-point-a/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [“People do crazy things when they're keeping girls locked up in their shed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/people-do-crazy-things-when-they-re-keeping-girls-locked-up-in-their/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/nor-did-i-need-anyone-s-pity-but-i-would-accept-it-with-grace-because/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [“They were kids. Kids don't care about totalitarianism. For my parents, Prague is picnics on Petrin Hill and homemade knedliky . It's home. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/they-were-kids-kids-don-t-care-about-totalitarianism-for-my-parents/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [“If you can't remember something, did it really happen?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/if-you-can-t-remember-something-did-it-really-happen/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [“See them in their golden hour, a flood of girls high on the ecstasy of the final bell, tumbling onto the city bus, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/see-them-in-their-golden-hour-a-flood-of-girls-high-on-the-ecstasy-of/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > ['The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/the-waking-dark-is-about-what-happens-when-something-awakens-a-town-s/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [“They would fade away-and I would be left alone to face the people at school,and the reporters,and Adriane,and all the places where Max had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/they-would-fade-away-and-i-would-be-left-alone-to-face-the-people-at/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [“It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/it-s-significantly-more-satisfying-to-kick-a-wall-than-it-is-to-kick/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [“See, wrong guys think they're good. Evil guys don't think at all. They're just evil. And kind of lame. So whick are you?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/see-wrong-guys-think-they-re-good-evil-guys-don-t-think-at-all-they/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/i-used-to-be-an-obsessive-outliner-figuring-that-writing-without-an/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/now-i-existed-solely-thanks-to-the-quantum-paradox-my-brain-a/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [“The days had no shape. They passed, which was good enough.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/the-days-had-no-shape-they-passed-which-was-good-enough/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) > [“Eli: 'If a machine like that really existed, people would be willing to kill for it. Lots of people.' Nora: 'Yeah, and if hot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-wasserman/eli-if-a-machine-like-that-really-existed-people-would-be-willing-to/) [Robin Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-wasserman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hard-truths/robin-wasserman/#itemlist", "name": "1 Hard truths Quotes By Robin Wasserman", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "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. 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