Summer Morning, Summer Night Quotes

“And for a moment, Vinia thought that she and Jim might be caught by a sudden drop of great masses of honey from above, sealing them into this tree forever, enchanted, in amber, to be seen by anyone in the next thousand years who strolled by, while the weather of all ages rained and thundered and turned green outside the tree.”
― Ray Bradbury, Summer Morning, Summer Night

“Inside each man, though he did not know it, nor ever considered it, was the image of the woman he someday must love. Whether she was composed of all the music he had ever heard or all the trees he had ever seen or all the friends of his childhood, certainly no one could tell. Whether the eyes were his mother's, and the chin that of a girl cousin swimming in a summer lake twenty-five years ago, this was unknowable also. But most men carried this image, like a locket, like a pearl-cameo, in their head a lifetime, taking it out only rarely, taking it never, after marriage, afraid then to compare it to the reality. And most men never saw the woman they would love anywhere, in the dark theatre, in a book, or passing on the street. They saw her only after midnight when the city was asleep and the pillow was cool under their heads. And she was a composite of all dreams and all women and every moonlit night since the calendar began”
― Ray Bradbury, Summer Morning, Summer Night

“— Я не злодей, я реалист, — ответил Джордж, закуривая сигарету.
— Когда человек произносит такие слова, это значит, что вся злость выпирает из него наружу.”
― Рэй Брэдбери, Летнее утро, летняя ночь

“„ – Но каквото и да правиш, септември винаги идва – каза тя. – Време е да откъснем август от календара!
- Може ли да задържа август? – Том стоеше с откъснатия месец в ръце.
- И за какво ти е? – каза баба.
- Не е свършил наистина, никога няма да свърши. – Том вдигна откъснатия лист. – Помня какво се е случило през всеки негов ден.”
― Ray Bradbury, Summer Morning, Summer Night

“Когда поймешь, что в человеческой природе всегда есть частица зла, тебе будет легче выстоять.”
― Ray Bradbury, Summer Morning, Summer Night