Something Wicked This Way Comes Quotes

He wanted to be near and not near them, he saw them close, he saw them far. Suddenly they were awfully small in too large a room in too big a town and much too huge a world. In this unlocked place...

[Tom Fury]: "Nightshade. That's quite a name." "And only fitting," said Will Halloway. "I was born one minute before midnight, October thirtieth. Jim was born one minute after midnight, which makes...

Yet this train's whistle! The wails of a lifetime were gathered in it from other nights in other slumbering years; the howl of moon-dreamed dogs, the seep of river-cold winds through January porch...

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a g...

Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more (Prologue.5-6)

"Heck." Jim sniffed north, Jim sniffed south. "Where's that storm?" […] Will let the wind ruffle and refit his clothes, his skin, his hair. Then he said faintly, "It'll be here. By morning."...

So there they go, Jim running slower to stay with Will, Will running faster to stay with Jim, Jim breaking two windows in a haunted house because Will's along, Will breaking one window instead of n...

Dad winked at Will. Will winked back. They stood now, a boy with corn-colored hair and a man with moon-white hair, a boy with a summer-apple, a man with a winter-apple face. Dad, Dad, thought Will,...