# Something Wicked This Way Comes

- Author: [Ray Bradbury](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes

## Quotes

> God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/god-how-we-get.md)

> And the odd thing in Dad’s voice was the sound truth makes being said. The sound of truth, in a wild roving land of city or plain country lies, will spell any boy.

p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/and-the-odd.md)

> And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a woman half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between. That's you, Will, for my money.

p. 136 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/and-i-saw.md)

> They eat the dark, who only stand and breathe.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/they-eat-the.md)

> If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.

p. 193 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/if-i-was.md)

> Good to evil seems evil.

p. 275 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/good-to-evil.md)

> Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

p. 289 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/is-death-important.md)

> “‘For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ's birth, there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so on down the years, with no winter, spring, or revivifying summer. For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. In gusts they beetle-scurry, creep, thread, filter, motion, make all moons sullen, and surely cloud all clear-run waters. The spider-web hears them, trembles—breaks. Such are the autumn people. Beware of them.’”

p. 192 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/for-some-autumn.md)