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Only a fool is not afraid. -LM

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the darkness. The lights spread out and where it touched the darkness the darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of dark thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through The Shining came the stars, clean and pure.-ML

Wwe musstt ggo behind thee shadow -ML

The sky darkened. The gold left the lights and they were surrounded by blue, Blue deepening until where there had been nothing but the evening sky there was now a faint pulse of star, and then another and another and another. There were more stars than Meg had ever seen before. - ML

They were standing in a sunlit field, and the air about them was moving with the delicious fragrance that comes only on the rarest of spring days when the sun's touch is gentle and the apple blossoms are beginning to unfold. -ML

The cocoa seemed frequently in the saucepan; geraniums bloomed on the window sills and there was a bouquet of tiny yellow chrysanthems in the center of the table. -ML

He walked into the bright morning, feeling lighter and freer than he had ever felt.

They went to the Column, where they stole a few more quiet minutes together, listening to the river wear its way deeper into the Earth, the way people wear grooves into each other's hearts. -JZ

He loved the way the words being together felt on his tongue, like nectar. - JZ

A world without you would break my heart. -JZ

He waited for the indigo gradient of the sky as the sun went down, until the first star of the evening.-JZ

He waited for the indigo gradient of the sky as the sun went down, until the first star of the evening.-JZ

Everything seem muted and colorless. -JZ

She clenched her fists and wept. -JZ

And instead of killing him, it only hollowed him out.-JZ

He shone bright, as if burned cleaned by fire. -JZ

He had his head down on the steering wheel, his body shaking, as he sat solitary in the frozen January midnight darkness. -JZ

I would be proud if you were my son. -JZ

How was it possible for love of a place in hatred of it to exist so comfortably side by side? -JZ

As Amelia's disembodied words of encouragement continue to stream in, the warm sugar-buttery smell of baking cake filled the house. -JZ

People are born and die. Seasons change. Rivers flow to the sea. Earth circles the Sun and the Moon circles earth. Everything whirring and spinning towards something. And I get to be part of it for a little while, the way I get to watch a train for a minute or two, and then it's gone.-JZ

This might be it, Dill thought. This might be the best your life ever is. This moment. Right now. -JZ

A warm evening winds carried a breath of honeysuckle and linden from the banks. A train whistled in the distance; it would soon rumble over them with a sound like waking up to a thunderstorm. He was a tuning fork, made to resonate at the frequency of this place, at this time. -JZ

He thus manages to escape a world in which big brothers die in faraway places. -JZ

He kept his head down and cast furtive glances from side to side, but by then the streets were mostly empty in the rust-colored light. -JZ

A man's work kept the back and arms strong for war. And he would need every ounce of strength in the upcoming days... -JZ

When they pulled into Forrestville, the shadows were long and the light looked like it was streaming through a picture of sweet tea. -JZ

Her internal activity switched from thinking to breathing. A sense of only wonder prevailed. -SM

The hills of Jericho are a bath of dark. -CM

To find living marrow in the ancient bones. To uncover. To make real. Feeling without action will shrink the heart.-Wael Zuaiter