Quotes by : Robert Cormier

The Goober was beautiful when he ran. His long arms and legs moved flowingly and flawlessly, his body....

The cheese stands aloneThe cheese stands aloneHeigh-ho the merry-oThe cheese stands alone

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed....

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain....

I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but....

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of....

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us....

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm.....