“Every night, when you stand outside and gaze upon the stars, you are bathing in time as well as light”
Source: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“A girl who looks up at the stars knowing one day, she will be among them.”
Source: September Love
“Death is a shift of focus. There is no loss; no one disappears. The people who are important to you are like constellations of stars in the night sky. What you see shifts depending on your vantage point. It doesn’t mean that the stars you can’t see have disappeared. We each exist this way to each other, flickering in and out. Death is but another flicker. The constellation remains—the relationships, which are, ultimately, a kind of love.”
Source: Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story
“Sometimes I wish I could join them... The fish, I mean. Really, could you imagine? How splendid it would be... to swim among the stars? Sigh.”
Source: This Was Our Pact
“They had found honey in the pyramids, buried among the dead—in case they’d gotten hungry on their journey. He wondered what the dead did now, without any more paths to guide them to the stars.”
Source: The Shivering Ground & Other Stories
“But there, all crowded together on the third-floor balcony, he watches as she falls in love with the stars, and they watch as he falls in love with her.”
Source: Juneau Elicits
“Far from a normal-functioning relationship, but normal has never been our thing.”
Source: After We Fell
“infinite the sounds of poems
seeking to be allowed to S U B M I T, — that this
dust become seed
like those extinguished stars whose fires still give us light”
Source: Desire: Poems
“Millions of lights blazed in the sky, brilliant and bleak like splintered ice. They blinked in and out of focus with an otherworldly syncretism, leaving Talon speechless.
Stars. I’m looking at stars.”
Source: ELITES : The Island of Darkness
“The stars are night birds with bright breasts
Like hummingbirds.
Twinkling stars are birds flying slowly.
Shooting stars are birds darting swiftly.
(Taos Pueblo, New Mexico)”
Source: Whirlwind Is a Spirit Dancing: Poems Based on Traditional American Indian Songs and Stories