Sisifo

“Vinia,” whispered Jim, after a while. “May I now?” His face was very large, near her, larger than any face she had ever seen. “Yes,” she said. He kissed her. The rain poured hard on the tree for a full minute while everything was cold outside and everything was tree-warmth and hidden away inside.”
― Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

“world is? How we try to get ahead, but are hit over the head every time we succeed a fraction?”
― Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

“What must it be on Earth?” wondered Poe. “Without Christmas? No hot chestnuts, no tree, no ornaments or drums or candles—nothing; nothing but the snow and wind and the lonely, factual people. . . .”
― Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

“Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe. Dracula, by Bram Stoker. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving. Rappaccini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce. Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. The Willows, by Algernon Blackwood. The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum. The Weird Shadow Over Innsmoutb, by H. P. Lovecraft.”
― Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales