AAmell’s Reviews > Dandelion Wine > Status Update

"Better than putting things in the attic you never use again. This way, you get to live the summer over for a minute or two here or there along the way through the winter, and when the bottles are empty the summer's gone for good and no regrets, and no sentimental trash lying about for you to stumble over forty years from now. Clean, smokeless, efficient, that's dandelion wine."

“Cayenne, marjoram, cinnamon… the names of lost and fabulous cities through which storms of spice bloomed up and dusted away.”

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”

Bradbury is so good at adding simple sensory details that make you feel like you’re inside the story.

“And the sea moved her back down the shore.”

What an absolutely brilliant and life changing monologue to read.
“No person ever died that had a family.”

“Now, chalk in hand, she stood back from life a silent hour before reaching for the eraser.”

“There’s the day I found I was alive… and why isn’t it brighter than the others?”

“Yesterday a whole lot of dust settled for good. And I didn’t even appreciate it at the time.”

“It doesn’t matter if being so alive kills a man.”