—Somewhere A Band Is Playing, Ray Bradbury

It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer.

— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (William Morrow Paperbacks; April 23, 2013) (via Cultural Offering)

“I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.”

— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury (1929-2012) - It Came From Outer Space, 1970

‘It’s not you I worry about,’ said Douglas. ‘It’s the way God runs the world.’

Tom thought about this for a moment.

‘He’s all right, Doug,’ said Tom. ‘He tries.’

Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

from The October Game by Ray Bradbury

Al Parker illustration for Ray Bradbury

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“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.”

— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Vintage Paperback - Assignment In Tomorrow by Frederik Pohl

Lancer (1972)

June dawns, July noons, August evenings over, finished, done, and gone forever with only the sense of it all left here in his head. Now, a whole autumn, a white winter, a cool and greening spring to figure sums and totals of summer past.

Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine