“.. holding a book but reading the empty spaces.”
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury. It is about two 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern home, Green Town, Illinois, on October 23rd. In dealing with the creepy figures of this carnival, the boys learn how to combat fear. The carnival's leader is the mysterious ”Mr. Dark”, who seemingly wields the power to grant the citizenry's secret desires. In reality, Dark is a malevolent being who, like the carnival, lives off the life force of those they enslave. Mr. Dark's presence is countered by that of Will's father, Charles Halloway, the town librarian who harbors his own secret fear of growing older because he feels he is too old to be Will's dad.
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), Chapter 28
“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
Variant: Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before death is what counts.
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“But no man's a hero to himself.”
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
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“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.”
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
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“It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.”
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
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“Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), Chapter 29
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), Chapter 38
