145 Quotes by Robert R. McCammon

My lip healed. So did my head. My pride stayed bruised, though, and my confidence was fractured. Those injuries, the ones that didn’t show, I would have to live with.

I don’t believe there can be any bad taste in creating a scene, only badwriting in handling it.

I judge God, or the power that we know as God, to be very, very weak. A dying candle, if you like, surrounded by darkness. And the darkness is closing in.

Life and Death were part of the same puzzle, part of the same strange and miraculous process of growth.

You see, it’s a girl’s life, too.

Death had come in the night. And stripped bare everyone and everything but him.

Boys want to hurry up and be men, and then comes a day they wish they could be boys again. But I’ll tell you a secret, Cory. Want to hear it?” I nodded. “No one,” Mrs. Neville whispered, “ever grows up.

The thing about pain is, it teaches you humility.

The thing about adults is, when you want them to pay attention to you and intervene, their minds are worlds away; when you want them to be worlds away, they’re sitting on the back of your neck.