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With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city. Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved. Some were decorous: old people in long stiff robes of mauve and grey, grave master workmen, quiet, merry women carrying their babies and chatting as they walked. In other streets the music beat faster, a shimmering of gong and tambourine, and the people went dancing, the procession was a dance. ↗


— Ursula K. Le Guin


#music

You make me thirsty, Promethea, my river, you make me eternally thirsty, my water. As if I had spent my life in an old house of dried mud, so dry myself that I could not even thirst, until yesterday. And suddenly yesterday, the dusty floor of my old house burst open and while I was still dozing away my parched existence, drop by drop I heard the music of coolness awaken the thirst under my dry soul. And leaning over the dark shaft of my life, I saw my childhood springs unearthed. Is that always how (by accident) we rediscover Magdalenian riches? ↗


— Hélène Cixous


#childhood #longing #soul #source #thirst

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. ↗


— J.K. Rowling


#human-nature #opening-lines #nature

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. ↗


— Edwin A. Abbott


#nature

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology. ↗


— Fareed Zakaria


#international-relations #national-policy #theology

From above, start with the privileged view. ↗


— Maureen Howard


#nature

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#opening-lines #first-sentence

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs. ↗


— Lynda Barry


#first-sentence #suicide #first-sentence

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope. ↗


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#suicide #first-sentence

The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky. ↗


— Ashley Madau


#nature #scenery #sky #vampire #vampires






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