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“There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.”

Heart America Sound Voice Silence Morning Fields Strange Spring Bird Areas Towns Harmony Lays Woods Dawn Score Stillness Surroundings Chorus Eco Marshes Blight

Author:Rachel Carson

“I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.”

Knows Made School Water Simple Morning Grew Grew Up Rivers Towns Soccer Happy Life Electricity Small Town Bathing Fetch Playing Soccer Tap Water

Author:Ishmael Beah

“Hollywood is the sort of town where you wake up in the morning and look out to see if it's still there. I expect the whole movie colony to pick up its tents one night and go back to whatever fairyland they came from.”

Ifs Looks Stills Whole Night Morning Picks Hollywood Wake Up Towns One Night Colony Tents

Author:Pamela Moore

“Now, in this town, you have to putter over a thing, even the slightest, a month. The powers that evolved the cabbage apple-pie in the morning, and executed it in the evening, are here unknown quantities.”

Morning Months Towns Evening Apples Quantity Pie Cabbage Apple Pie

Book:Letters of Susan Hale

Source: Letters of Susan Hale

“Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute it to the diabetes and send me back to the minors - or worse, release me.”

Ifs Found Games Morning Player Towns Release Attributes Slips Minors Bathroom Diabetes Cubs Roommate Injection Insulin

Author:Ron Santo

“It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.”

Light House Nature Sleep Morning Air Sky Streets Healthy Angel Towns Breaths Blue Clouds Brilliant Shops June Passengers Blue Sky

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop

“My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive and the circus to come to town. That's what it's like, every day, when you're making a film. It's the magic.”

Film Used Father Waiting Morning Magic Towns Location Truck Circus

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.”

“I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.”

People Whole Home Waiting Destiny Morning Knowing Particular Arms Ordinary Towns Whole Life Landscape Awake Destined

Book:Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.”

“...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.”

Knows World Firsts Looks Lasts Half Morning Fields Solitude Happenings Sitting First Time Window Towns Train Evening Shakes Pool Solitary Pale Last Time Traveller Carts Vanishing Mules

Author:Virginia Woolf

“While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.”

Ifs World Love Kind Persons Long I Can Dream Together Desire Night Waiting Imagination Answers Morning Doors Minutes Missing Ten Towns Train Sentences Coffee Planes Call Me All Night Taxi

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.”

World Morning Sun Towns Exposed Every Morning

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.” “What?” she demanded. He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.”

Ifs Men Want Said Faces Night Grows Realizing Perfect Morning Laughing Knowing Imagine Love You Hundred My Friends Towns Asking Appearance Your Face Living My Life Sigh Without You Marry Me

Author:Julia Quinn