It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. 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 first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer.
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (William Morrow Paperbacks; April 23, 2013) (via Cultural Offering)
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.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via quotespile)
“I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.”
— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
October Country by Ray Bradbury Cover by Joe Mugnaini
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury, 1972
You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
*when i say girlie i mean it truly in a non gender specific way, this poll is for everyone!
**obviously everyone gets both headaches and stomach problems on occasion, this is about if you suffer from one or other of them notably more often!
pls reblog to get a bigger sample size!
“But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451