Robert Cormier Quotes

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• A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting…
• Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
• He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that…
• Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.
• Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not…
• 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…
• You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.
• He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine -…
• People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.
• I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I…
• ...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.
• They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.
• It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but…
• And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
• Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright…
• Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

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