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“He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

Men Soul Light Past Stars Black Dark Knowing Sea Rocks Horse Towns Down And Moved Rose Passing Passings Ships Grass Salt Drowning Whales Passing Through Seamless Ferry Colts

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.”

House Names Tree Towns Legs Landscape Grass Infinity Ants Afar Tiles

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it`s the opposite of a true grass roots movement.”

Mean House White Movement Roots Opposites Towns Grass Halls White House Fireworks

Author:Chuck Todd

“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.”

Way Looks Mean Long Stills Matter Suffering Break Alive Thousand Roots Towns Metaphor Careful Ships Grass Strings Be Careful You Choose Shortage

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.”

Knows Beautiful Faces Rich Sky Fields Towns Blue Green Grass Dull Brown Yellow Pale Bedroom Twists Blades Vivid Somewhere Else Sunny Palette Blades Of Grass Suffocating

Author:Lisa Ann Sandell

“Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.”

Long Stills Alive Roots Towns Grass Shortage

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.”

Men Eye Science Century Towns Shoes Bunch Beer Clock Grass Halls Bottles Abandoned Wounded Trifles Nineteenth Century Tolls Mining Old Shoes

Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic