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.

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

When he ran, he even loved the pain, the hurt of the running, the burning in his lungs and the spasms....

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

Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights....

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