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Ray Bradbury is one of my all-time favorite writers. His stories, particularly the ones above, always make me savor my life all the more. They also make me anxious for summer. Bradbury suspends a small moment in amber, and with the utmost care, unlocks all of the emotions and possibilities in that moment. Because of his ability to use imagery symbolically, or even to use it as a means of capturing the essence of a moment, I tend to pay attention to the little things around me. I live far out in the countryside, and I never get tired of simply glancing over leaves and sky, of gazing out the window of a car and taking it all in. I never ever want to take it for granted.
"The room was like the bottom of a cool well all night and she lay in it like a white stone in a well, enjoying it, floating in the dark yet clear element of half dreams and half wakening. She felt the breath move in small jets from her nostrils and she felt the immense sweep of her eyelids shutting and opening again and again. And at last she felt the fever brought into her room by the presence of the sun beyond the hills." ~ Hopscotch, R. Bradbury
“Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid. You! Tell the truth, now! When my twenty-four hours are up, after we walk by the lake and take the train back and come through the woods to my house, you want to…”
He made her say it.
“… sleep with me?” she whispered.
“For ten thousand million years,” he said.
“Oh.” Her voice was muted. “That’s a long time.”
~ Death and the Maiden, R. Bradbury
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