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"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain."

"Learn from me... how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures... then that study is certainly unlawful, not befitting the human mind."

No monster yet, but lots of hubris.

Observations thus far:

Its harder for me to stay engaged than I expected.

The sense of fear and dread is real, as well as the allure and simultaneous revulsion of evil.

Bradbury REALLY likes the word "billion" in this book. He's used it at least a billion times.

Too soon to tell, but this story might actually be scary. I can feel the wicked coming.

"I admit being born here, yes, but I'd give anything right now to have been born in Kenosha or Zion."

"A good night's sleep, or a ten-minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine."

"Douglas, [Great-Grandma] whispered, don't ever let anyone do the shingles unless it's fun for them."

Revisiting a favorite.

Why is this book so good?! 😭

"'If worst comes to worst, and both of us ar real old - say 40 or 45 some day - we can own a gold mine out West and sit there smoking corn silk and growing beards.'
'You can count on me,' said Tom.
'Its not you I worry about,' said Douglas. 'It's the way God runs the world.'
Tom thought about this for a moment.
'He's alright, Doug,' said Tom. 'He TRIES.'"

After a few heavier reads, a Joseon Era retelling of Pride and Prejudice sounds delightful.

Truths are coming to light. I am disturbed. It feels not to far from our future's reality.

I'm way more immersed in this story than I expected to be. It also has that same feeling of dread and waiting-for-what's hiding-in-the-darkness-for-the-reader-but-is-in-plain-sight-for-the-characters that I felt reading Never Let Me Go.