Liam Cairns

“More murders are committed at ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature. Over one hundred, it's too hot to move. Under ninety, cool enough to survive. But right at ninety-two degrees lies the apex of irritability, everything is itches and hair and sweat and cooked pork. The brain becomes a rat rushing around a red-hot maze. The least thing - a word, a look, a sound, the drop of a hair and - irritable murder. Irritable murder, there's a pretty and terrifying phrase for you.

- Touched with Fire”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain. . . .”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country