"Thunder" Quotations

Quotations for “A Sound of Thunder”
“Eckels flushed angrily. ‘Trying to scare me?’” (Bradbury 226).
“’I can take care of myself!’ Eckels retorted” (Bradbury 226).
“’So they’re dead, so what?’ said Eckles. ‘Who needs mice anyway?’” (Bradbury 228)
“’By stepping on one single mouse, we destroy an important link in a growing species’” (Bradbury 228).
“’Correct. A little error here would multiply in fifty million years, all out of proportion’” (Bradbury 229).
“’The safety’s on. I know what I’m doing’” (Bradbury 231).
“’Don’t shoot till we give the word. Stay on the path!’” (Bradbury 231).
“’I’ve hunted tiger, wild boar, even elephants. Look at me! I’m shaking like a kid!’” (Bradbury 232).
“’It can’t be killed! I was wrong to come!’” (Bradbury 232).
“’I miscalculated! I didn’t know it would be so big!’” (Bradbury 233).
“Eckles, not looking back, walked blindly to the edge of the Path, his gun limp in his arms, stepped off the Path and walked, not knowing it, into the jungle” (Bradbury 234).
“’Eckles panicked like I knew he would’” (Bradbury 236).
“’The monster’s dead, you yellow coward!’” (Bradbury 237).
“The room was there as they ad left it, but not the same as they had left it” (Bradbury 238).
“But the immediate thing was the sign painted on the office wall, the same sign he had read earlier today on first entering” (Bradbury 239).
“’Travis, the sign . . . on the wall. Read it’” (Bradbury 239).
“’No, it can’t be. Not a little thing like that! Not a butterfly!’ cried Eckles” (Bradbury 239).
“It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances . . . all down the years across time” (Bradbury 240).
“ . . . he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon” (Bradbury 240).




Work Cited
Bradbury, Ray. “A Sound of Thunder.” TALES OUT OF TIME. NY: Philomel Books, 1979:224-240.