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1. "I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt." ~ Robert Cormier
2. "The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile." ~ Robert Cormier
3. "Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there." ~ Robert Cormier
4. "I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence." ~ Robert Cormier
5. "All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street." ~ Robert Cormier
6. "I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper." ~ Robert Cormier
7. "I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are." ~ Robert Cormier
8. "I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations." ~ Robert Cormier
9. "I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer." ~ Robert Cormier
10. "You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset." ~ Robert Cormier
11. "My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus." ~ Robert Cormier
12. "The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?" ~ Robert Cormier
13. "Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument." ~ Robert Cormier
14. "They murdered him." ~ Robert Cormier
15. "Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the only word that really seemed beautiful to me was tenderness." ~ Robert Cormier
16. "Pluck my heartFrom my fleshAnd eat it....." ~ Robert Cormier
17. "A: Funny about my mother. All my life, from the time I was just a little kid, I thought of her as a sad person. I mean, the way some people are tall or fat or skinny. My father always seemed the stronger one. As if he was a bright color and she was a faded color. I know it sounds crazy.T: Not at all.A: But later, when I learned the truth about our lives, I found she was still sad. But strong, too. Not faded at all. It wasn't sadness so much as fear--the Never Knows." ~ Robert Cormier
18. "Eat my heartChew it hardSwallow my soul, too" ~ Robert Cormier
19. "Angry at his parents and all grown-ups who thought that school life was a lark, a good time, the best years of your life with a few test and quizzes thrown in to keep you on your toes. Bullshit. There was nothing good about it. Tests were daily battles in the larger war of school. School meant rules and orders and commands. To say nothing of homework." ~ Robert Cormier
20. "Eric Poole began with cats. Or, to be more exact, kittens." ~ Robert Cormier
21. "I have always pondered a tragic law of adolescence. (On second thought, the law probably applies to all ages to some extent). That law: People fall in love at the same time—often at the same stunning moment—but they fall out of love at different times. One is left sadly juggling the pieces of a fractured heart while the other has danced away." ~ Robert Cormier
22. "Go get your bus, square boy." ~ Robert Cormier
23. "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 went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page." ~ Robert Cormier
24. "Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus." ~ Robert Cormier
25. "Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence." ~ Robert Cormier
26. "He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything." ~ Robert Cormier
27. "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 damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it." ~ Robert Cormier
28. "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 a world full of strangers." ~ Robert Cormier
29. "They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too." ~ Robert Cormier
30. "People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection." ~ Robert Cormier
31. "Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?" ~ Robert Cormier
32. "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 can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company." ~ Robert Cormier
33. "You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent." ~ Robert Cormier
34. "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 only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion." ~ Robert Cormier
35. "Often he rose early in the morning, before anyone else, and poured himself liquid through the sunrise streets, and everything seemed beautiful, everything in its proper orbit, nothing impossible, the entire world attainable." ~ Robert Cormier
36. "What could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archie and Janza did to the school. What they would do to the world when they left Trinity." ~ Robert Cormier
37. "He looks at me fondly. I know that the look doesn't have love in it. Or even lust. I still wonder about love or sex or lust. I saw lust in his eyes when he looked at that girl on the sidewalk … I love him, anyway. I love him because he's kind to me and he doesn't want my body, doesn't want to feel me or touch me, like all the others … and maybe after a while he might look at me with more than fondness, will kiss me sweetly, tenderly." ~ Robert Cormier
38. "You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty boxes of chocolates. The cruel part - watching two guys hitting each other, maybe hurting each other, while they're safe in the bleachers. That's why it works, Carter, because we're all bastards." ~ Robert Cormier
39. "Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil." ~ Robert Cormier

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