# Quote — Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

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

- Author: [Ray Bradbury](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury.md)
- Book: [Something Wicked This Way Comes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes.md)
- Page: 17
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury#Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes_(1962)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/they-eat-the

## More from this book

> 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)