"And She Wondered Why Everything In The World Was A Reminder;Why Passing Through A Doorway Brought Motherly

"And she wondered why everything in the world was a reminder; Why passing through a doorway brought motherly warmth Enveloping all in an embrace, whispering softly, 'Come here, my child, come here.'"

Anonymous

"The Boardwalk lights against the deepening blue sky gained an ideal, starry beauty."

John Knowles, "A Separate Peace"

"And the graphite of the pencil Stained the pages, showed that Yes, Someone's Heart lived Here, bled out on the pages and ran with the rivers."

Anonymous

by 海螺壳

"The next morning I saw dawn for the first time. It began not as the gorgeous fanfare over the ocean I had expected, but as a strange gray thing, like sunshine seen through burlap."

John Knowles, "A Separate Peace"

‘Séléné’ By Albert Aublet, 1880