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“The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.”

Book:The Golden Compass

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The Golden Compass

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Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman is a British film writer known for his adaptations of literary works. Born in October 1946, he is a prolific writer who has adapted several renowned novels into film scripts. more

“This morning I woke up before the alarm clock went off and the sky outside was a big red ocean. You're beautiful when you're sleeping so I spent an hour observing the way you breathe. Inhale, exhale, without a thought of tomorrow. The window was open and the air was so crisp and I couldn't imagine how to ever ask for more than this.”

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Book:Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold. It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses.”

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Book:A Court of Thorns and Roses

Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses

“To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea”

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Author:Munia Khan

“The pools had been written onto the fields by the rain. The pools were a magic worked by the rain, just as the tumbling of the black birds against the grey was a spell that the sky was working and the motion of grey-brown grasses was a spell that the wind made. Everything had meaning.”

Magic Sky Wind Rain Spells

Author:Susanna Clarke

“The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.”

Nature Sky Clouds Dragons

Book:The Bone People

Source: The Bone People

“The Moon is slipping from our grasp at a rate of about 1.5 inches a year. In another two billion years it will have receded so far that it won’t keep us steady and we will have to come up with some other solution, but in the meantime you should think of it as much more than just a pleasant feature in the night sky.”

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Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky”

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Book:A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

Source: A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

“The trees were set close and from the perimeter of that parcel of land I could not see the school hidden within them. Look up here, I thought I heard someone say to me. When I did look up, I saw that the branches overhead were without leaves, and through their intertwining mesh the sky was fully visible. How bright and dark it was at the same time. Bright with a high, full moon shining among the spreading clouds, and dark with the shadows mingling within those clouds—a slowly flowing mass of mottled shapes, a kind of unclean outpouring from the black sewers of space.”

Night Space Sky Leaves The Night School

Book:Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Source: Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

“We are all of life who stepped from the sea trading weightless journeys of the currents We are all of life who build and tear down and build again to find gold and silver to find scars that weep and bleed to step from the sea to stay with the sea”

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Book:Mystical Tides

Source: Mystical Tides

“Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”

God Night Sky Reflection

Author:Charlotte Brontë

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