He begins to feel more courageous about entering the next dark passage, and his confidence grows little by little as he begins to learn life lessons.

FORBES: Change Happens. Embrace It. Enjoy It. Look Forward To It.

She leaned forward over the sink, unexpectedly dizzy, taking her weight on her arms, and staring down into the dark passage of the drain, understanding it for a few seconds as if it opened a way out of the world, or into it.

NEWYORKER: Friendly Fire

What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?

NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning

The storm boiled above the Indian ocean, a dark, bristling wall of cloud, blocking our passage west.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Skybreaker'