Robert McCammon

“into the cell, put the basket down upon the magistrate’s”

— Robert McCammon

“The demons almost got me! But glory be to Jesus, and when he arrives on his flying saucer from the planet Jupiter…

— Robert McCammon

“TWAS SAID better to light a candle than to curse the dark, but in the town of New York in the summer…

— Robert McCammon

“In later years I would think that no woman’s lips had ever been as red as that bike. No low-slung foreign sports…

— Robert McCammon

“In repose his face seemed to become darker still, and as the wattage of those green eyes fell their somber hue made…

— Robert McCammon

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

— Robert McCammon

“If you make friends with pain, you have a friend for life.”

— Robert McCammon

“He had turned nine only six days ago, but now he felt very old because Papa wasn’t home yet and those fire-demons…

— Robert McCammon

“I couldn’t understand how one human bein’ could do that to another. I couldn’t understand that kind of hate. I mean ……

— Robert McCammon

“Life and Death were part of the same puzzle, part of the same strange and miraculous process of growth.”

— Robert McCammon

“the paradox of Man was the fact that one might have been made in the image of God, yet it was often…

— Robert McCammon

“...that in this town prostitutes may give sewing lessons to ladies of the church, pirates my be consulted for their opinions on…

— Robert McCammon

“The two from Bristol hung in my father’s office. He was a coroner, too, as was my grandfather. I remember my father…

— Robert McCammon

“And still his two-toned shoes pumped the pedals, and the bike’s tires sang, and the dead were ground under where they lay.”

— Robert McCammon

“It was hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children”

— Robert McCammon

“Rain fell on the roofs of the just and the unjust, the saints and the sinners, those who knew peace and those…

— Robert McCammon

“How many times had he felt alone at midnight, with the hard dark pressing in and no sign of morning? Many times…

— Robert McCammon

“Better not to walk upon a garden made of quicksand.”

— Robert McCammon

“New York is not a town constrained by a bedtime, sir.”

— Robert McCammon

“Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks, The lady of situations. Here is the man with three staves, and here the…

— Robert McCammon

“I had a dog named Jesus once. I crucified him, but he didn't come back to life. Before he died, he told…

— Robert McCammon

“That boy. That stupid little foolish boy took their money, and he ran. Back to Zephyr, back to the clean hills, back…

— Robert McCammon

“I didn’t hear the song like Reverend Blessett did. To me it was the sound of summer, a slice of heaven on…

— Robert McCammon

“All life isn't hearts and flowers. But life is just as much pain and mess as it is joy and order, too.…

— Robert McCammon

“Hell might have been for heroes, but life was for the living. These”

— Robert McCammon