I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

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.

In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.