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“As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.”

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Book:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

“I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.”

Source: To the End of Time

“the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.”

Stars Beauty Bird Skins Footprint Moss

Book:A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.”

Stars Planets Skins Tiny Locals Dozen

Book:Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Source: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

“My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts, that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!”

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Author:Kate Winslet

“Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.”

Hard Universe Stars Dark Skins Sparks Dark Skin

Book:The Stand

Source: The Stand

“All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please keep him safe. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.'' Makes a cathedral, him pressing against me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.”

“the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world”

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Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.”

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Book:Man and His Symbols

Source: Man and His Symbols

“We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.”

Ifs Feels Mind Feelings Stars Cold Skins Winter Harm Moonlight Aurora

Author:Philip Pullman

“She had fallen asleep with her head on his arm, the clockwork angel, still around her throat, resting against his shoulder just to the left of his collarbone. As she moved away, the clockwork angel slipped free and she saw to her surprise that where it had lain against his skin it had left a mark behind, no bigger than a shilling, in the shape of a pale white star.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess