Something Wicked This Way Comes Quotes

“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth....Such are the autumn people.”
― Ray Bradbury

“..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Когато реките преливат, когато от небето се сипе огън, нима има по-хубаво място от библиотеката с нейните многобройни зали, с книгите? С малко късмет никой няма да те намери там. И как да те намерят — та ти си в Танганайка през 1898, в Кайро през 1812, във Флоренция през 1492!”
― Ray Bradbury

“Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“I know it. I know everything.'
She waited a moment. 'What do you know?'
'No use making more people. People die.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“The blows of his heart might jar him loose, crash him down, but he was glad to hear them, know himself alive.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Why, he's the last peach, high on a summer tree.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Don’t let them take your crying, turn it upside down and use it for their own smile! I’ll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Oh, Dad. I never knew you. I sure know you now.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“A man, a woman, rather than walk away from, or kill, each other, ride each other a lifetime, pulling hair, extracting fingernails, the pain of each to the other like a narcotic that makes existence worth the day.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“In a couple of days, Dad, I'll tell you everything. I swear. Mom's honour.'
'Mom's honour' said Dad, at last, 'is good enough for me.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes