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The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.
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blood
house
rebecca
road
sea
sky
wind
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Daphne DuMaurier |
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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difficulties
enlightenment
humor
inspirational
road
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Anne Lamott |
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I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.
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life
nineteen
road
years
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Sylvia Plath |
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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journey
life
road
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Anne Carson |
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As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.
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bravery
courage
danger
faith
fear
pain
peace
peace-of-mind
road
walk
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Can you walk the road your dream goes? Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to. Who is not. ...
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road
walking-the-dream
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
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death
life
post-apocalyptic
road
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Cormac McCarthy |
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Man stopped wanting to walk, to walk on his own feet and enjoy it. What's more he longer saw his own life as a road, but as a highway
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man
road
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Milan Kundera |
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"They hit a pothole deep enough to make her teeth snap together, and she burst out, "This road reminds me of my life. It's going somewhere familiar, but every time I look up, there's a new obstacle to jump, another hole to fall in."
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Christina Dodd |
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This Stone He went looking for a road that doesn't lead to death. He went looking for that road and found it. It was a stone road. He walked that road that doesn't lead to death. He walked on it awhile before he stopped, having turned to stone. Now he stands there on that road that doesn't lead to death not going anywhere. He can't dance. from his eyes stones fall. The rainbow people pass him crossing that road, long-legged, light-stepping, going from the Four Houses to the dancing in the Five Houses. They pick up his tears. This stone is a tear from his eye, this stone given me on the mountain by one who died before my birth, this stone, this stone.
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lasting
road
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Just you and me and the road. Just a couple of tramps, just a couple of gypsies, that's it, but we'll be together.
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gypsies
road
tramps
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James M. Cain |
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Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape, an unspace to link One-place-town to Another-place-town over a river or a road or a tangle of railway tracks or a quarry, or to attach an island to another island or to the continent from which it strains. The dream of a bridge is of a woman standing at one side of a gorge and stepping out as if her job is to die, but when her foot falls it meets the ground right on the other side. A bridge is just better than no bridge but its horizon is gaplessness, and the fact of itself should still shame it. But someone had built on this bridge, drawn attention to its matter and failure. An arrogance that thrilled me.
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arrogance
bridge
bridge-dreams
bridges
bridging
continent
dream
failure
gaplessness
houses-on-bridges
island
quarry
railway-tracks
river
road
shape
unspace
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China Miéville |
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Well, thank the gods,' he sighed. 'Oh? And what would it be you're thanking them for?' Bahzell inquired, and Brandark grinned. 'For making roads and letting us find one. Not that I'm complaining, you understand, but this business of following you cross-country without the faintest idea where I am can worry a man.
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humorous
lost
road
roads
thankful
worried
worry
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