The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cr...
There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unh...
Think I'll go eat me a doughnut and take me a nap.
This is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes we take what we value for granted. There
This was all he wanted now. Some sign that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time needed to think all the things that must be thought.
This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.
This will be the one trip of your life. Keep your eyes wide.
Those who don't build must burn.
Up steps, three, six, nine, twelve! Slap! Their palms hit the library door. * * * They opened the door and stepped in.They stopped.The library deeps lay waiting for them.Out in the world, not much hap...
Vendrán lluvias suaves y olores de la tierra,y golondrinas que girarán con brillante sonido;y ranas que cantarán de noche en los estanques y ciruelos de tembloroso blanco,y petirrojos que vestirán plu...
Was there, then, no strength in growing up? No solace in being an adult? No sanctuary in life? No fleshly citadel strong enough to with-stand the scrabbling assault of midnights?
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
Well,’ she said, ‘I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just...
What could he say that might make sense to them? Could he say love was, above all, common cause, shared experience? That was the vital cement, wasn't it? Could he say how he felt about their all being...
What more easily explained and natural? With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginat...
When I reread it as a teenager, Fahrenheit 451 had become a book about independence, about thinking for yourself. It was about treasuring books and the dissent inside the covers of books. It was about...
Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?
Will walked silently to touch the iron rungs hidden under the rustling ivy. Dad. You won’t pull these off …? Dad probed one with his fingers. Some day, when you’re tired of them, you’ll take them off...
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