Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.