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“Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe bursts in to save you. Not a bad idea.”

Book:The Stars That Form Us

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“I wrapped my fingers around the first light I saw and felt all at once so happy and so sad and so free. My hand was cold somehow as I lifted the tiny star out of the water and brought its trembling, burning form to my face. I kissed it gently and laughed like a child as my face seemed to become angelic for a few moments. The star laughed back at me in little sweet notes, and I released it back to the sea. I can still feel the star in my hands to this day. You can have your noctiluca scintillans, your petty protists in the sea. I prefer to sail among the stars.”

Stars Sailing Elysium

Book:Elysium

Source: Elysium

“I rocketed a commanding finger to the heavens and it rained stardust upon our young heads.”

Stars Elysium

Book:Elysium

Source: Elysium

“You and I, your mother, Ahlam, we are from up there,' my father continued. 'We come from the stunning stars. We were just born in the wrong place. We were meant to live on another planet. The people who come to the desert are those who know this, deep inside of them, we are from up there. From far, far away.”

Stars Space Setting Desert Far Away Refugees Sonora Hannah Lillith Assadi Displaced

Book:Sonora

Source: Sonora

“I don't think I'm from this galaxy at all. I believe I came from the Andromeda galaxy, not so far, but far enough. Maybe that's why I'm an outcast.' He drew the spiral of Andromeda close to the Milky Way, almost touching. Then he pointed to Andromeda in the night sky above us. 'Maybe that's where I'm from too,' my father said. We could still see the stars.”

Stars Galaxy Outcast Sonora Hannah Lillith Assadi Galaxies Displaced

Book:Sonora

Source: Sonora

“Jenny: But surely Lord Blakely could not abandon his estates for so long. Gareth: No. Lord Blakely could not. Not unless he had someone he could trust to run his estates in his absence. And Lord Blakely...Well, Lord Blakely did not trust anyone. Jenny: Lord Blakely is talking about himself in the third person, past tense. Its disturbing.”

Humor Romance Third Person

Book:Proof by Seduction

Source: Proof by Seduction

“There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way.”

Stars Sky Moon Description Milky Way Sonora Hannah Lillith Assadi

Book:Sonora

Source: Sonora

“The day is crisp and clear, almost like every other morning he's taken the same walk in the snow, hiking to the forest and back.”

Love Romance Death Lost Stars Hero Lust Live Fight Mission Sci Fi Romance Tiny Beautiful Things

Book:No Ordinary Star

Source: No Ordinary Star

“Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe burst in to save you. Not a bad idea.”

Stars Plan Guards Arclight Vexis

Book:The Stars That Form Us

Source: The Stars That Form Us

“The stars twinkled high above and reflected onto the cold window. I blew on the frosty glass and watched my breath fog up. I traced my initials across the cold glass, the condensation trickling down the pane.”

Stars Fantasy Young Adult Coming Of Age Young Adult Fiction Historical Fiction Young Adult Fantasy

Book:Thorns in the Shadow

Source: Thorns in the Shadow

“The Sun, the Stars, the Seas with all other things were made by the Divine Being, God.”

God Wisdom Science Stars Nature Sea

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

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