Dandelion Wine

Should a Happiness Machine, he wondered, be something you can carry in your pocket?

Be what you are, bury what you are not,

“It’s not really over,” said Tom. “It’ll never be over. I’ll remember what happened on every day of this year, forever.”

And he was glad he had decided to live.

“A good night’s sleep, or a ten-minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine,

The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.

I see my grandfather there looking up at that strange drifting light, thinking his own still thoughts

Emitted wisdoms masked as jokes,

Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become selfconscious about.

I learned to let my senses and my Past tell me all that was somehow true.