Robert McCammon discussion

I thought it might be nice to have a place to share our favorite Robert McCammon quotes.
Do you have a particular passage that you love? One that, perhaps, you have highlighted in your books, or on your Kindle? Come on in and share them with us!

My favorite is from Boy's Life:

"We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God's sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they'd allowed to wither in themselves."

What a stirring and beautiful quotation!:)

I think so too. :)

Charlene wrote: "I think so too. :)"

I haven't highlighted anything (on purpose) in my kindle yet, but I do write quotations down occasionally. I will have to look up some of McCammon's in my notebooks.

:)

I don't know what happens if you click "quotes" on the Goodreads home page, on the right side under your profile. I should say I don't know what happens if you click it when you don't have any. Every time I see a quote I like I add it, so I must have hundreds of them. :)

Here is another favorite of mine:

“If you were my girlfriend I would give you a hundred lightning bugs in a green glass jar, so you could always see your way. I would give you a meadow full of wildflowers, where no two blooms would ever be alike. I would give you my bicycle, with its golden eye to protect you. I would write a story for you, and make you a princess who lived in a white marble castle. If you would only like me, I would give you magic. If you would only like me.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life

I love those Charlene. *sigh

At age 5 or 55, I would love someone to talk to me like that. :)

Mr. McCammon is not "just" an author, but a Poet:).

I cannot read either of those quotes and not be affected. I think you're right, M. A Poet with a capital P. :)

I love the quote taken from Boy's Life that Charlene posted. I've read that to my wife a least a couple times. It's so true.

It is true. I think that we often just don't realize it until someone reminds us.

Another of my favorites. Again from Boy's Life:

“The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks and get crippled. People lose their way, for one reason or another. It's not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know its happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you 'sir'. It just happens.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life

Charlene wrote: "Another of my favorites. Again from Boy's Life:

“The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good..."

sigh!

:)

One from Blue World.

And at the edge of the ocean a green mask and cowl washed up from the foam, started to slip back into the waves again. A little boy picked it up. He and his dad had come to fish on the pier this morning, before the sun came up and the big ones went back to the depths. He had seen the cab go over the edge, and the sight of this mask made his heart beat harder. It was a thing worth keeping. He put it on. It was wet and heavy, but it made the world look different, kind of. He ran back to his dad, his brown legs pumping in the sand, and for a moment he felt as if he could fly.

LOVE. It. :)
I know exactly who that mask belonged to, too. :)

;)