"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."

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Source : Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

Robert Cormier

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Years Quotes

“To achieve great things you have first to believe it.”
“Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.”
“The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.”

Source : "Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth", www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.
“I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.”
“It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.”
“I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.”
“I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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