Quotes by : Robert Cormier

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.

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

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

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....

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....

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