Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury

"I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that."

"Who wants a sunset to last? Who wants perfect temperature? Who wants air smelling good always? So after awhile, who would notice? Better. for a minute or two, a sunset."

"My dear, you never will understand time, will you? You're always trying to be the things you were, instead of the person you are tonight."

"No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now."

"For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran."

"The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!"

"Some people turn sad awfully young," he said. "No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them."