Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1)

by Ray Bradbury

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren’t looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing!

“What ever happened to happy endings?” “They got them on shows at Saturday matinees.” “Sure, but what about life?” “All I know is I feel good going to bed nights, Doug. That’s a happy ending once a day. Next morning I’m up and maybe things go bad. But all I got to do is remember that I’m going to bed that night and just lying there a while makes everything okay.”