At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?"
Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley."
The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the big mountains back there?"
The old dark eyes grew fixed, and their light turned inward on the years that were living in Gitano's head.

John Steinbeck

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...the nest is agiggle with excitement.

Chris Ware

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Newly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda

Chris Ware

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To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like the butterfly. I could also describe the butterfly, but bearing in mind the horrible scene of a crime, so that the butterfly would become something frightful.

Italo Calvino

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The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.

Susanna Clarke

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He was almost twenty and Ree knew most girls would call him handsome or dreamy or some such. Sandy hair, blue eyes, put together strong, with bright teeth and one of those smiles.

Daniel Woodrell

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...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life.

Don DeLillo

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His head always felt about to ache, but never began to.

John Barth

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Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as you step further away; the face then is part of a body, and then the body is framed in a doorway, then the doorway framed in the trees beside it. The path grows longer and the door smaller, the trees fill up your sight and the door is lost, then the path is lost in the woods and the woods lost in the hills. Yet somewhere in the center still is the kiss. That's what time is like.

John Crowley

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He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.

Richard Brautigan

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