145 Quotes by Robert R. McCammon

We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train...

Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark...

You just give folks a key, and they can rightly open their own locks.

No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it’s a disguise. It’s just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts. They still would like to jump and play, but that heavy clay won’t let them...

The Golden Apples of the Sun, by a writer named Ray Bradbury.

A ninety-two-year-old man has to open a lot of locks to recall a day when he was nine years old.

Don’t be in a hurry to grow up. Hold on to being a boy as long as you can, because once you lose that magic, you’re always begging to find it again.

Josh was beginning to believe the whole thing was like professional wrestling: the superpowers put on their masks and stomped around, roaring threats and swinging wildly at each other, but it was a game of macho, strutting bluff.

I guess you never know what a person can do until that person has to do it.