Boy's Life

by Robert McCammon

The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us.

Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don’t know it’s happening until one day you feel you’ve lost something but you’re not sure what it is. It’s

Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who’s got magic in them after they’re no longer a child. But

“You never know how things are gonna turn out, though, and that’s the truth. You aim for one place, sure as an arrow, but before you hit the mark, the wind gets you.

He saw straight through to the cosmic order of things, and he knew that life is not held only in flesh and bone, but also in those objects — a good, faithful pair of shoes; a reliable car; a pen that always works; a bike that has taken you many a mile — into which we put our trust and which give us back the security and joy of memories.

I understood then what courage is all about. It is loving someone else more than you love yourself.

Hell might have been for heroes, but life was for the living.