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Robert Cormier quotes

American Author July 17, 1925 – November 2, 2000

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A: Funny about my mother. All my life, from the time I was just a little kid, I thought of her as a sad person. I mean, the way some people are tall or fat or skinny. My father always seemed the stronger one. As if he was a bright color and she was a faded color. I know it sounds crazy. T: Not at all. A: But later, when I learned the truth about our lives, I found she was still sad. But strong, too. Not faded at all. It wasn't sadness so much as fear--the Never Knows. Robert Cormier
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt? Robert Cormier
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier quote: "People throw the word love around like confetti when they..."
People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection. Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier quote: "Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love..."
Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil. Robert Cormier
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything. Robert Cormier
And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself. Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier quote: "I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in..."
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. Robert Cormier
Sometimes I wake up at night in a panic. Wondering: What will my life be like? And sometimes I even wonder: Who am I? What am I doing here, on this planet, in this city, in this house? And it gives me the shivers, makes me panic. Robert Cormier
A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it. Robert Cormier
He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers. Robert Cormier
She didn't want to look ahead to the days and the months and the years with him. Here, now, in this room, it was all right, but later? Again, time couldn't stop. And she saw at last that time only stopped when you were dead...Time was always moving and nothing could stay the same, everything was always changing, for better or for worse. And you had to change with time, with the seasons and the years, or you would be dead too, although your heart would continue to beat. Robert Cormier
Often he rose early in the morning, before anyone else, and poured himself liquid through the sunrise streets, and everything seemed beautiful, everything in its proper orbit, nothing impossible, the entire world attainable. Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier quote: "There was nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight..."
There was nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight of a teacher getting upset. Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier quote: "The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it..."
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. Robert Cormier

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