--- title: "3 Pretty girl Quotes By Robert R. McCammon" description: "3 Pretty girl quotes by Robert R. McCammon. Plus more from Robert R. McCammon and more Pretty girl sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/robert-r-mccammon-14992_life_the-truth-of-life-is-that-every-year-we_293523.jpg" --- > [“The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/the-truth-of-life-is-that-every-year-we-get-farther-away-from-the/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/robert-r-mccammon-14992_life_the-truth-of-life-is-that-every-year-we_293523.jpg) > [Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/life-itself-does-its-best-to-take-that-memory-of-magic-away-from-us/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f28/robert-r-mccammon-14992_doe_life-itself-does-its-best-to-take-that-m_2063093.jpg) > [“You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/you-know-i-do-believe-in-magic-i-was-born-and-raised-in-a-magic-time/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa2/robert-r-mccammon-14992_born-and-raised_you-know-i-do-believe-in-magic-i-was-bor_2177030.jpg) ## More by Robert R. McCammon > [“There was lightning behind Mr. Sayre's eyes, and it was looking for a place to strike.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/there-was-lightning-behind-mr-sayre-s-eyes-and-it-was-looking-for-a/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“His hair was think and curly and reddish-brown, his eyes a clear ice blue; Ramona had told him many times that she could see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/his-hair-was-think-and-curly-and-reddish-brown-his-eyes-a-clear-ice/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“...hot shouts of neon...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/hot-shouts-of-neon/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/the-truth-of-life-is-that-every-year-we-get-farther-away-from-the/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“It seemed to Billy that no matter how far you walked, you never really got to the end of things.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/it-seemed-to-billy-that-no-matter-how-far-you-walked-you-never-really/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“The sharp white steeple of the Hawthorne First Baptist Church stuck up through the leafless trees like an admonishing finger.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/the-sharp-white-steeple-of-the-hawthorne-first-baptist-church-stuck/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“I hoped she would never lock her smile away, and forget where she'd put the key.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/i-hoped-she-would-never-lock-her-smile-away-and-forget-where-she-d/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/they-say-that-somewhere-in-africa-the-elephants-have-a-secret-grave/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/maybe-crazy-is-what-they-call-anybody-who-s-got-magic-in-them-after/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“I couldn't picture heaven. How could a place be any good at all if it didn't have the things there you enjoyed doing? If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/i-couldn-t-picture-heaven-how-could-a-place-be-any-good-at-all-if-it/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“This was a dank, sinister chill: the chill of shadows where poison toadstools grown, their ruddy colors beckoning a child to come, come take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/this-was-a-dank-sinister-chill-the-chill-of-shadows-where-poison/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“Put one foot forward and the other will get you to where you are going~!" Bag Lady, Swan Song”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/put-one-foot-forward-and-the-other-will-get-you-to-where-you-are/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“Grigsby had looked at him askance. “Why is it,” he said, “that I have the distinct impression you’re not surprised by this news?” ‘Surprised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/grigsby-had-looked-at-him-askance-why-is-it-he-said-that-i-have-the/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/we-all-start-out-knowing-magic-we-are-born-with-whirlwinds-forest/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) > [“If you were my girlfriend I would give you a hundred lightning bugs in a green glass jar, so you could always see your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/if-you-were-my-girlfriend-i-would-give-you-a-hundred-lightning-bugs/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pretty-girl/robert-r-mccammon/#itemlist", "name": "3 Pretty girl Quotes By Robert R. 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We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they’d allowed to wither in themselves. After you go so far away from it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. 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