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“I was raised in the desert and always appreciated the way its landscape gives you a chance to see what's coming. In Florida, dangers don't reveal themselves until it's too late. The alligator lurking in the shallow pond, ready to devour your pet or your child. The snake hidden in the underbrush. The riptide slicing across that postcard-perfect Atlantic. Sinkholes. Encephalitis. Brain-destroying bacteria that flourish in overheated lakes. Quicksand.”

Danger Illness Florida Snakes Alligators Quicksand Dangers Landscapes Sinkholes Riptides

Book:I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

Source: I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

“Florida roads were littered with sinkholes after hurricane Ian.”

Storm Florida Hurricane Ian Flooding Roads Surge Storm Surge Sinkholes Littered

Author:Steven Magee

“Good Morning Sinkhole by Stewart Stafford Lucky birdshit on my window, A split-second awakening, Another landslide out of bed, Flailing in duvet quicksand. Clawing at the walls going down, Assume precarious crab-walk position, Straining every fibre to avoid collapsing, Land ho! with a fingertip mattress grab. Steadying myself, I drag my carcass up, Shaky leg muscles gain some relief, Retake Altar of Id with a drowning sweat, Survive to face more nightmare carpet rides. © 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”

Sleep Bed Metaphor Slice Of Life Waking Up Modern Poetry Sinkholes Rude Awakening Funny Poetry Landslide

Author:Stewart Stafford

“My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.”

Ifs World Way Trying Mean Dream Past My Own Sleep Brain Wonder Bears Sorrow Healthy Scene Fingers Forgotten Tiny Holes Grass Prophet Dreamer Bubbles Wet Peers Blades Curls Sinkholes

Author:Karen Russell

“Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.”

Seems Happens America Fire Ordinary Folks Extremes Forests Weather Over It Massive Flood Catastrophe Drought Tornadoes Forest Fires Extreme Weather Sinkholes

Author:Jane Velez-Mitchell

“I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.”

World Bigs Eyelids Pretty Things Sinkholes

Author:Brenna Yovanoff

“And Vishous. . . V was the worst of them. He stood by the door, staring into space. Icy before, he was glacial now, a sinkhole in the room. -Phury's thoughts”

Space Rooms Doors Worst Staring Icy Vishous Staring Into Space Sinkholes

Book:J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8

Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8

“...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.”

Looks Sometimes Reality Happens Eye Agree Depth Stranger Locked Fathom Sinkholes

Book:Great House

Source: Great House

“The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.”

People Perfection Enormous Clarity Length Beads Sinkholes

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I slithered out of the sinkhole on my stomach. It was not the sexiest move I'd ever performed, but I was impressed nonetheless.”

Moving Stomach Impressed Sexiest Sinkholes

Book:Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

“Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the same old me? There is comfort in the tried and true. Breaking ground might uncover a sinkhole, one impossible to climb out of. And setting sail in uncharted waters might mean capsizing into a sea monster's jaws. Easier to turn my back on these things than to try tjem and fail. And yet, a whisper insists I need to know if they are or aren't integral to me. Status quo is a swamp. And stagnation is slow death.”

“Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.”

Source: Perfect

“[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!”

“Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.”

Self Hands Chosen Pity Drag Miscellaneous Self Pity Sinkholes

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.”

Courses Hollywood Expensive Aesthetic Protective Depraved Monasteries Sinkholes

Author:David Mamet