AAmell’s Reviews > Dandelion Wine > Status Update

“There’s a thing about the lawn mower I can’t even tell you, but to me it’s the most beautiful sound in the world, the freshest sound of the season, the sound of summer, and I’d miss it fearfully if it wasn’t there, and I’d miss the smell of cut grass.”

“When you’re my age, you’ll find out it’s the little savors and the little things that count more than big ones.”

"Was there, then, no strength in growing up? No solace in being an adult? No sanctuary in life? No fleshy citadel strong enough to withstand the scrabbling assault of midnights?"

“They passed like cloud shadows downhill… the boys of summer, running.”

“Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive, I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”

The 7 page intro in this novel is better than the entire last book I read. Dear god I’m in for a ride.

“And uncles, gathered with their smokes
Emitted wisdoms masked as jokes.”

“In what way then was the town special? Why, I was born there. It was my life.”

“If your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him.”

“Dandelion Wine is nothing if it is not the boy-hid-in-the-man playing in the fields of the Lord on the green grass of other Augusts in the midst of starting to grow up, grow old, and sense darkness waiting under the trees to seed the blood.”