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The wheels hummed lullabies on the liquorice road ...


Glenda Millard

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I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the...
JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
JACK KEROUAC Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
LUCINDA WILLIAMS What's Your Road, Man?
JACK KEROUAC We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our ...
SARAH VOWELL Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione.
JACK KEROUAC Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.
GLENDA MILLARD The girl danced like light on water. After I'd watched for a while I looked with all of me, not just...
GLENDA MILLARD Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white d...
GLENDA MILLARD We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the ...
GLENDA MILLARD Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling st...
GLENDA MILLARD ... we sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light. B...
GLENDA MILLARD Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every...
GLENDA MILLARD He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours f...
GLENDA MILLARD I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, wor...
GLENDA MILLARD Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.
GLENDA MILLARD Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.
GLENDA MILLARD You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if th...
GLENDA MILLARD I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, s...
GLENDA MILLARD Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
MELINA MARCHETTA The landscape started hard, sharp black mountains over my shoulder and thirsty young saguaros huggin...
LAURIE PEREZ Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.
JACK KEROUAC ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
JACK KEROUAC Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and ...
TOM WAITS Tastes like Liquorice - but purple
CASS VAN KRAH It's a pure case of negligence. The truck had been maintained that morning and sent out on the road ...
CHARLES SORENSON Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.
LINDA COLLISON Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.
JACK KEROUAC After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Lullabies to Paralyze.
NINE INCH NAILS Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Road to destination is often very straight with journey smooth, but majority has tendency to meander...
ANUJ SOMANY But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.
RANSOM RIGGS I must apologize, it seems I've gone and gotten myself shot.
MILLARD IN MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN BY RANSOM RIGGS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES That has been a big benefit, we have got a lot of people off the road (because of cell phone calls)....
SHERIFF GARY PAINTER A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
OUIDA A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the wo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe...
M. SCOTT PECK The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut a...
CORMAC MCCARTHY And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make...
THE BEATLES He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Which is why I am not here to tell you tomorrow will be a new day. That the sun will go on shining. ...
LANG LEAV Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point li...
VERA NAZARIAN Like seasonless fowl we migrate…
from East Coast to West Coast
and back and forth again,...
LENORE KANDEL I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up a...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... In reaction to what Millard is doing. They are going to be out there.
LUANNE NELSON The wheels of justice - they're square wheels
BARBARA CORCORAN Boating is a wonderful and relaxing pastime, however it is not without its hazards.
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER Next time I expect you to act a little friendlier and remember that we would like to get out of here...
TRACEY WARD Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
TRACEY WARD Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER ... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And y...
KAREN TAYLEUR Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON Everybody is on the run. Either from something or someone.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
YOGI BERRA When you come to the fork in the road, take it
YOGI BERRA It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
JOHN CAGE Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or ...
RICHARD CORLISS There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
JOHN SCHLESINGER In Sikaman, deadlines are on wheels.
NANA AWERE DAMOAH All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for materi...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
JOHN CAGE One hundred years ago, Henry Ford put the world on wheels. The new Ford Motor Co. will put the Inter...
JAC NASSER Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.
CONOR OBERST Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
ILONA ANDREWS Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who a...
RICHARD FEYNMAN It turned out to be just his sort of life in Melbourne [Florida] -- a little three-room mini apartme...
WELLS TOWER We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to ste...
SOSUKE AIZEN Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
ALLISON BURNETT What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are co...
J.I. PACKER Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
ROBERT BRAULT Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
ILONA ANDREWS Well, yelling real loud, that's an important skill to have, too. You never know when you might walk ...
DIANE HAMMOND I am who I say I am,
I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
JAMES HOWE Wheels down to wheels up,
NORMAN MCSWAIN Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it le...
IVAN TURGENEV We speculate that there was the possibility it could have been for the after-market wheels on his ve...
B.D. EVANS Quando lo trovai a Mill City quella mattina era piombato in uno di quei periodi depressi e infernali...
JACK KEROUAC Then the wheels on the bus fell off. We just never got our swagger back.
MILAN BROWN There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and...
C. JOYBELL C. I had it going quite nicely. And then the wheels came off. And the wheels came off very, very quickl...
MICHAEL CAMPBELL I tried to help you turn the page by burning it, but you fucking kept sniffing the ashes!
AHMED MOSTAFA Then if we make it to tomorrow, we'll be here to pick up the pieces, and help him carry his load. Th...
DIANNA HARDY In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

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