"Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently."

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Ray Bradbury

#Running Quotes #Doors Quotes #Gone Quotes

“Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.”
“People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.”
“People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.83, Petrarca Press
“At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.”
“Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.”

Source : Godfrey Higgins (2010). “Eadras and the Ancient Jewish Cabal”
“Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.”
“The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.”
“In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.”

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