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“I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.”

Way Looks Kind Has Beens Whole Bigs Light Black Cities Streets Rain Window Shining Apples Sugar Candy Polished Syrup

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.”

People War Seems Today Wanted Stars Black Office Paper Window Scripts Extremes Covered Covered Up

Author:J. J. Abrams

“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”

Has Beens Light Eye Night House Black Darkness Sea Sky Fields Wind Window Mad Rose Woods Hills Wet Orange Lenses Blades All Night Luminous New Places Emeralds Flexing Floundering

Book:The Hawk in the Rain

Source: The Hawk in the Rain

“Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.”

Black Grief Window Mirrors Hats Ashes Hook Mirroring Where You Belong Black Hats

Book:Elegy: poems

Source: Elegy: poems

“It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.”

Stills Hard Light Fall Black Nature White Morning Air Wind Cold Garden Window Gates Thursday Snowfall

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.”

Light Wanted Black Steps Support Broken Mass Window Casts Glasses Patterns Heavy Strikes Shade Roof Moonlight Lanes Pillars Spooky Rugged Lanterns

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

“Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon”

Black Sky Moon Window Golden Honey Bowls Mellow

Book:Poems and problems

Source: Poems and problems

“When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.”

People Persons Black My Own Identity Pride Findings Red Window Green Teenager Fake Black People Bob Black Person Marley Black Pride

Author:W. Kamau Bell