The Martian Chronicles Quotes

"Biological metamorphosis through psychological imbalance!" ("The Earth Men," 210)

"I never suspected myself of such an imagination. Black hair, blue eyes, and white skin! What a strange man, and yet—quite handsome." ("Ylla," 35)

He turned, and upon his face was a mask, hammered from silver metal, expressionless, the mask that he always wore when he wished to hide his feelings... ("Ylla," 160)

Mr. and Mrs. K had lived by the dead sea for twenty years, and their ancestors had lived in the same house, which turned and followed the sun, flower-like, for ten centuries. ("Ylla," 2)

[H]e saw the red fire and heard the big sound and felt the huge tremor as the silver rocket shot up and left him behind on an ordinary Monday morning on the ordinary planet Earth. ("The Taxpayer," 7)

Around the rocket in four directions spread the little town, green and motionless in the Martian spring. There were white houses and red brick ones, and tall elm trees blowing in the wind, and tall...

"We'd like someone to give us the key to the city or something like that, and we'd like somebody to shake our hands and say 'Hooray' and say 'Congratulations, old man!'" ("The Earth Men," 99)

Quietly she wished he might one day again spend as much time holding and touching her like a little harp as he did his incredible books. ("Ylla," 10)

To get away from wars and censorship and statism and conscription and government control of this and that, of art and science! ("The Taxpayer," 1)

The rocket stood in the cold winter morning, making summer with every breath of its mighty exhausts. ("Rocket Summer," 5)