{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/and-the-odd",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/and-the-odd.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/and-the-odd.md",
  "id": "e0ac28ae-18bb-4264-af2e-ada7ebed4bec",
  "slug": "and-the-odd",
  "text": "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.",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "Ray Bradbury",
    "slug": "ray-bradbury",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "Something Wicked This Way Comes",
    "slug": "something-wicked-this-way-comes",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": 36,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "truth",
      "slug": "truth",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury#Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes_(1962)",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:11",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "ff29be96-d282-4067-8fab-f0a4222e308c",
      "slug": "god-how-we-get",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/god-how-we-get",
      "text": "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.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 18,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "friendship",
          "slug": "friendship",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury#Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes_(1962)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:11"
    },
    {
      "id": "85757f8f-69a6-486e-bbf6-54e0c4a1a37b",
      "slug": "if-i-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/if-i-was",
      "text": "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.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 193,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "old age",
          "slug": "old-age",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age"
        },
        {
          "name": "melancholy",
          "slug": "melancholy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/melancholy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury#Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes_(1962)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:11"
    },
    {
      "id": "6e9fb400-e720-45de-9131-98e8c1694918",
      "slug": "good-to-evil",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/good-to-evil",
      "text": "Good to evil seems evil.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 275,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        },
        {
          "name": "kindness",
          "slug": "kindness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury#Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes_(1962)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:11"
    }
  ]
}