Цитаты из книги Dandelion Wine

“You, Tom!” said Mrs. Brown. “I need moral support and the equivalent of the blood of the Lamb with me.

She came out of the the bathroom putting iodine on her finger where she had almost lopped it off cutting herself a chunk of cocoanut cake.

And there were the eyes filled with molten green- · gold.
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and here, invisible, his spearmint-breath upon the air.

John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran.

“Funny thing is It don’t feel like talking about grasshoppers.”
“You always did!”
“Sure.” John looked steadily at the town. “But It guess this just ain’t the time.”

The trolley, with a bump and a sailing glide, swept past the city limits, turned off the street, and swooped downhill through intervals of odorous sunlight and vast acreages of shadow that smelled of toadstools.

He knew it would take as many years as could think of now to forget the tracks, no matter how deeply buried.

“Well, time to go. Parents’ll think I stole you all for good.”

And then they were at the end of the line, the silver tracks, abandoned for eighteen years, ran on into rolling country. In 1910 people took the trolley out to Chessman’s Park with vast picnic hampers. The track, never ripped up, still lay rusting among the hills.

How’ll I get around?

and all the time in the world held still,

“What’ll we do, then?

“We can’t stay in the attic three weeks hiding till everybody forgets.”
“We’d starve.”

his teeth like those you saw in dental windows, alone, grimacing at you, as you passed by late at night.

That’s just a jog around the block to them. It’s when you hit ninety, ninety-five, a hundred, that you’re far-traveling like heck.”

Need to run anywhere off the main streets,

I got the whole year lined up,

“Last one over this fence,” said Douglas, “is a girl.”

Seems like the town is full of machines . . . ’ said Douglas, running. “Mr. Auffmann and his Happiness Machine, Miss Fern and Miss Roberta and their Green Machine. Now, Charlie, what you handing me?”
“A Time Machine!”

“Well, I guess we better go. So long and thanks, Colonel.”