Swan Song Quotes

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

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

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

“One Step...and then the next gets you where you're going."
- Sister Creep”
― Robert R. McCammon, 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, 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, Swan Song

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

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

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

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

“...hot shouts of neon...”
― Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song

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

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

“Something inside her brain cracked like a funhouse mirror that existed only to reflect a distorted world,”
― Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song

“She looked like the daughter of a marriage between ice and fire.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song

“Something that resembled a small, unblinking scarlet eye opened in the center of the flame, and he wanted to scream.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song

“Sometimes you can see a person’s inside face—but only for a second or two—if you look close and hard enough. The eyes give away the inside face, and likely as not it’s a whole lot different than the mask that’s stuck on the outside.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song

“The insect kept going, out of the light’s range and into the darkness on its purposeful journey. Who am I to kill such a thing? he asked himself. Who am I to deliver death to even the lowest form of life?”
― Robert McCammon, 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 McCammon, Swan Song

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

“And she was aware of something else in the eyes of the mask he was wearing, something beyond the cold, lizardlike sheen of evil, something deeper ... and almost human. She remembered seeing the same thing in the eyes of Uncle Tommy the night he’d crushed her flowers, back in the Kansas trailer park seven years ago; it was something wandering and longing, forever locked away from the light and maddened like a tiger in a dark cage. It was dumb arrogance and bastard pride, stupidity and rage stoked to atomic power. But it was something of a little boy, too, wailing and lost.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song

“Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful,” she said. “It just takes the right touch.”
― Robert McCammon, Swan Song

“I judge God, or the power that we know as God, to be very, very weak. A dying candle, if you like, surrounded by darkness. And the darkness is closing in.”
― Robert McCammon, Swan Song

“If a person’s gotta die, he oughta die tryin’ to go home to somebody he loves, don’t you think?”
― Robert McCammon, Swan Song

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

“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, Swan Song

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

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