Status Updates From Dandelion Wine

"There were a million small towns like this all over the world. Each as dark, as lonely, each as removed, as full of shuddering and wonder. Oh, the vast swelling loneliness of them. The secret damp ravines of them. Life was a horror lived in them at night, when at all sides sanity, marriage, children, happiness, were threatened by an ogre called Death."

"I admit being born here, yes, but I'd give anything right now to have been born in Kenosha or Zion."

"A good night's sleep, or a ten-minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine."

"Douglas, [Great-Grandma] whispered, don't ever let anyone do the shingles unless it's fun for them."