Ray Bradbury

The Golden Apples of the Sun

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  • Mildred Osirishas quoted5 years ago
    He would stand upon the comer of an intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of sidewalk in four directions, deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference; he was alone in this world of 2053 A.D., or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.
  • Mildred Osirishas quoted5 years ago
    "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more."
  • Mildred Osirishas quoted5 years ago
    word like that."

    "What'll we do?"
  • Mildred Osirishas quoted5 years ago
    I'll make a voice like all of time and all of the fog that ever was; I'll make a voice that is like an empty bed beside you all night long, and like an empty house when you open the door, and like trees in autumn with no leaves. A sound like the birds flying south, crying, and a sound like November wind and the sea on the hard, cold shore. I'll make a sound that's so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearths will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns
  • Mildred Osirishas quoted5 years ago
    won't question or blame you.
  • Mildred Osirishas quoted5 years ago
    I won't go into detail, you'll have to see it yourself.
  • josuedr11has quoted7 years ago
    But there are times," said the Emperor, more sadly still, "when one must lose a little beauty if one is to keep what little beauty one already has.
  • josuedr11has quoted7 years ago
    Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.
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