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“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.”

“If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.”

Ifs Persons Would Be America Darkness Towns Sat Lancaster

Book:Mason & Dixon

Source: Mason & Dixon

“Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.”

Trying Wells Looks Long Whole Faces Asks Secret Steps Darkness Cutting Son Towns Folks Edges Whole Life Ems Your Face Drag Every Step

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.”

Light Levels Silence Darkness Gone Towns Train Burning Village Valleys Passages Projectile

Book:Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus

“Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.”

Should Winning Darkness Late Towns Awards Texas Small Town Heartbreaking 1930s Ashley

Author:Justine Larbalestier

“When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.”

Stills Young Church Levels Darkness Built Towns Locals Palms Small Town Intimidating

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.”

Body Song Darkness Huge Towns Edges Very Happy

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so sad, And he told them all why he felt so bad. He told of Pain and Rain and Cold, He told of Darkness in his soul, And after he finished his tale of woe, Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no, They laughed until they shook the trees... And while the world laughed outside. Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.”

World Feels Said Soul Pain Felt Darkness Tree Cry Cold One Day Rain Towns Down And Finished Tales Sat Laughed Cried Woe Clown So Sad

Author:Shel Silverstein

“From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.”

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.”

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Book:Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure

Source: Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure

“The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.”

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Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.”

Source: What Happened to Goodbye