Quotes from Swan Song

“Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. 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.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Put one foot forward and the other will get you to where you are going~!" Bag Lady, Swan Song”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“...the magic place of soul-soothing dreams, where the silken sheen of polished glass under soft lights made her think of how lovely Heaven was going to be.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“This was a dank, sinister chill: the chill of shadows where poison toadstools grown, their ruddy colors beckoning a child to come, come take a taste of candy.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“...just shattered structures rising up like rotten teeth from a diseased jaw.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“It is a contradiction this creek- a hundred thousand years old but renewed with each rainfall.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“...he was a scream wrapped up in straw, a little, weak, vicious thing gnashing inside a monstrous facade...”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,
The lady of situations.
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see. I do not find
The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“...and his bones were a cage of ice.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“take it one step at a time. One step and then the next gets you where you’re going.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Josh Hutchins’s battered old Pontiac gave a wheeze like an old man with phlegm in his lungs.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“If ... if you were God ... would you destroy this world?” Hannan”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“and as she’d watched him stagger away Swan had realized that forgiveness crippled evil, drew the poison from it like lancing a boil.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Wearily, she sat up. Jesus was not coming today. She would have to die later, she decided. There was no use lying out here like a fool in the rain. One step, she thought. One step and then the next gets you where you’re going.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“God A’mighty, what’s the point of livin’ if you don’t fight for what you hold dear?”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Once upon a time, he thought, we had a love affair with fire.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Dear sweet Jesus, come down in your flying saucer and take me with you!”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“an answer. Josh smiled. “I guess I am.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“He listened to the keening of the wind whistling through holes in the walls, and he pondered the thought that there might be something out there in the dark—God or Devil or something more elemental than either—that looked at humankind as Josh had viewed the roach—less than intelligent, certainly nasty, but struggling onward on its journey, never giving up, fighting through obstacles or going around them, doing whatever it had to do to survive. And he hoped that if the time ever came for that elemental fist to come crashing down, its wielder might take a moment of pause as well.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“as she’d watched him stagger away Swan had realized that forgiveness crippled evil, drew the poison from it like lancing a boil.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Josh was beginning to believe the whole thing was like professional wrestling: the superpowers put on their masks and stomped around, roaring threats and swinging wildly at each other, but it was a game of macho, strutting bluff.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“hand over her facial features. Swan’s touch was as soft as smoke.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Rudy had been a kick in life. But in death he was a real drag.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“Contemplating the great cloud-streaked orb of the Earth, he’d been moved to tears, and his emotional radio transmission of “I think I know how God must feel, Houston” had done more than anything to win him the presidency. But he’d inherited the mistakes of the generations of presidents before him, and he’d been ridiculously naive about the world on the eve of the twenty-first century. The”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“I popped the last Tylenol about three days before the bombs hit. A poem I was writing fell to pieces.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

“The solution to things he did not understand was very simple: Destroy it. He”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Swan Song

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