Top 95 Cormier Quotes
#1. I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That's why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.
Simon Rich
#2. With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel, circling around puzzled Jewish families walking back to their cars. This is how I learned to ride a bike.
Mindy Kaling
#3. One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.
Sara Zarr
#4. If people realized the great pains I go through to impose such delicious torment on him, they would be more punctilious.
Andrew Cormier
#5. Three things make up who we are as individuals: what we think, what we feel, and what we do. If we manage to change any one of these three aspects of ourselves, the other two will follow.
Rick Cormier
#7. Sometimes I wake up at night in a panic. Wondering: What will my life be like? And sometimes I even wonder: Who am I? What am I doing here, on this planet, in this city, in this house? And it gives me the shivers, makes me panic.
Robert Cormier
#8. You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.
Robert Cormier
#10. I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
Robert Cormier
#11. If you truly believe in yourself and your skills, most times, it's enough.
Daniel Cormier
#12. I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
Robert Cormier
#13. I didn't smoke often, and had never smoked before the apocalypse, but now I had more pressing health issues to worry about.
Andrew Cormier
#14. If it wasn't for insomnia, I'd never get anything done.
Andrew Cormier
#15. His leg split like a piece of lumber being hit with an awl.
Andrew Cormier
#16. In order to create a new world, we must first destroy the old one.
Andrew Cormier
#17. Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.
Robert Cormier
#18. 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
#19. A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.
Robert Cormier
#20. 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
#21. Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.
Robert Cormier
#23. At first, many people infected with the zombie virus experienced similar symptoms to Ebola.
Andrew Cormier
#24. The world was left in complete devastation but I ruled most of what remained
Andrew Cormier
#25. As the days went by, my frustration festered like an outhouse during a Jamaican summer.
Andrew Cormier
#26. It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.
Robert Cormier
#27. Many of our flaws are old emotional defenses which may fade away when we're loved in spite of them.
Rick Cormier
#28. No matter how much I respect someone or how much I like someone, it doesn't exceed my will to win.
Daniel Cormier
#29. I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.
Robert Cormier
#30. Every day I wake up and I realize how lucky I am to be living this life.
Daniel Cormier
#32. Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
Robert Cormier
#33. You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
Robert Cormier
#34. I stuck one of my backpack straps into my mouth and bit down on it. I knew that no matter what I did, my attempt at playing doctor was going to f**king hurt, but I didn't feel like dying here.
Andrew Cormier
#35. When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.
Daniel Cormier
#36. It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.
Robert Cormier
#37. 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
#38. He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed.
Robert Cormier
#39. With timid curiosity, I asked, what do you mean the old bodies get reused?
Andrew Cormier
#40. Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument.
Robert Cormier
#41. It had initially been thought that the zombie virus was an offshoot of Ebola. Many zombie-virus symptoms mimicked the terrible, hemorrhagic fever.
Andrew Cormier
#42. People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.
Robert Cormier
#43. Do I dare disturb the universe?
Yes, I do, I do. I think.
Jerry suddenly understood the poster
the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.
Robert Cormier
#44. There was nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight of a teacher getting upset.
Robert Cormier
#45. We take the most difficult relationship of our childhood... and we MARRY it.
Rick Cormier
#46. There is an unspoken agreement in every successful relationship: "I'm not perfect and you're not perfect. I can ignore your imperfections if you can ignore mine. I choose to spend my life in your company.
Rick Cormier
#47. Ebola then turns the insides of its host into jelly: you begin to vomit black junk which is basically your dissolved liver and internal organs.
Andrew Cormier
#48. A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.
Robert Cormier
#49. I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
Robert Cormier
#50. At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.
Robert Cormier
#51. Even the worst humans in the history of the world didn't grow up thinking, "I hope I slaughter an entire race of people when I'm an adult".
Andrew Cormier
#52. Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?
Robert Cormier
#53. No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.
Daniel Cormier
#54. My name is one best whispered in terror in a dark corner.
Andrew Cormier
#55. 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
#56. You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.
Daniel Cormier
#57. 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
#59. Eric Poole began with cats. Or, to be more exact, kittens.
Robert Cormier
#60. Happiness is a way of traveling and not a destination
Robert Cormier
#61. If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.
Daniel Cormier
#62. There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.
Robert Cormier
#63. 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
#64. I had watched him single handedly rip the head off a zombie as he had simultaneously prayed for its soul. When you witness a man do something like that, it changes your perception of them.
Andrew Cormier
#65. It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.
Robert Cormier
#66. And he did see
that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
Robert Cormier
#67. There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.
Robert Cormier
#68. Someone had bashed his head in, perhaps to put him out of his misery, but more likely to keep him from coming back as a zombie.
Andrew Cormier
#70. With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.
Daniel Cormier
#71. 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
#72. Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.
Daniel Cormier
#73. 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
#74. They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.
Robert Cormier
#75. That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.
Robert Cormier
#76. It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.
Robert Cormier
#77. All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.
Robert Cormier
#78. One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.
Daniel Cormier
#79. The cheese stands alone
The cheese stands alone
Heigh-ho the merry-o
The cheese stands alone
Robert Cormier
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. No one wants to sit through a drawn-out tale any more than they want a third nipple
Andrew Cormier
#83. 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
#84. I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.
Robert Cormier
#85. Pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.
Robert Cormier
#86. 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
#88. I'm weary of the battle. But a tired fighter can still be a fighter.
Robert Cormier
#89. You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.
Robert Cormier
#91. A smile for all the stupid people out there with bleeding hearts for serial killers.
Robert Cormier
#92. Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there ...
Robert Cormier
#94. The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
Robert Cormier
#95. I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
Robert Cormier
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