145 Quotes by Robert R. McCammon

This was turning out to be the greatest game he’d ever played.

Johnny ate encyclopedias like any other kid might eat Red Hots or Lemonheads.

But life is just as much pain and mess as it is joy and order. Probably a lot more mess than order, too.

I understood then what courage is all about. It is loving someone else more than you love yourself.

Rain fell on the roofs of the just and the unjust, the saints and the sinners, those who knew peace and those in torment, and tomorrow began at a dark hour.

Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?

You never know how things are gonna turn out, though, and that’s the truth. You aim for one place, sure as an arrow, but before you hit the mark, the wind gets you. I don’t believe I ever met one person who became what they wanted to be when they were your age.

I believe music is the language of youth, and the more you can accept as being valid, the younger your attitude gets.

And the need to hear stories, to live lives other than our own for even the briefest moment, is the key to the magic that was born in our bones.