Dandelion Wine Quotes

And he knew what it was that had leaped upon him to stay and would not run away now. I'm alive, he thought. (2.55-56)

Douglas felt but did not feel the deep loam, listening, watchful. We're surrounded! He thought. It'll happen! What? he stopped. Come out, wherever you are, whatever you are! he cried silently. (2.19)

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...

Douglas sprawled back on the dry porch planks, completely contented and reassured by these voices, which would speak on through eternity, flow in a stream of murmurings over his body, over his eyel...

Should a Happiness Machine, he wondered, be something you can carry in your pocket? Or, he went on, should it be something that carries you in its pocket? "One thing I absolutely know," he sa...

Still the man and boy stood there, the boy glowing, the man with revelation in his face. (5.47)

"How have we used machines so far, to make people cry? Yes! Every time man and machine look like they will get on all right—boom! Someone adds a cog, airplanes drop bombs on us, cars run us off c...

"You want to see the real Happiness Machine? The one they patented a couple thousand years ago, it still runs, not good, all the time, no! but it runs. It's been here all along." (13.129)