"Something Wicked This Way Comes" Quotes
Two boys encounter a sinister carnival that preys on the deepest desires of the townspeople.
horror | 293 pages | Published in 1962
Quotes
Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light.
The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deathwatch beetles, and thrive the centuries.
You mustn’t lose it. The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm, honey. The gods are laughing at us. The broken heart of love, the battered, the betrayed. It’s what I must trust in. The rest is lust and sweat.
The great good of dreams is the way they open the doors on the possible.
The balloon seller smiled, as though he were a mocking part of the dark.
