What, in nature, " Kit asked, "is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?"" The Dismals, " Giles answered promptly. "A beautiful aberration in the lay of the land-- North Alabama. A section mysteriously lowered, strewn with boulders, ferny, mossy, cooler--the vegetation, they say, typical of Canada. There the creek runs clear, but all other Alabama rivers and waterways are muddy with sediment. I even like the name--the Dismals. An eternal place, disjunct with the climate, the time, and its location."" You think being dismal is an attractive association with eternity?" I asked." It is a cool Eden in the Southern summer heat. What's yours, Una?""The Kentucky hills in spring. Layers of pink and white--redbud and dogwood."" And you?" Giles asked Kit."Stars, " he said. That was all. Sena Jeter Naslund
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The quote "stars" shows that no matter how difficult life gets, we can always turn to the stars and count on them to guide us. The essay is about a man who was sitting on a cliff. He looked up at the stars and realized that all of them are there for him. They are his friends, they are his family, they are his everything.

Source: Ahabs Wife, Or The Stargazer

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