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“At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.”

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“If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”

“The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.”

Way Should Years Littles Has Beens Night Black Water Darkness Air Tree Sky Streets Fine Promise Moon Fairs Should Have Woods Lamps Should Have Been Frost Crisps Puddles Fruition Main Street

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.”

Littles Stills Faces Passion Sky Quiet Angry Twitching

Book:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky”

Humans Heart Littles Bigs Spirit Animal Sky Special Dog Lovers Empathy Generous Sentimentality Animal Lover

Author:John Grogan

“Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.”

Ifs Littles Night Stars Waiting Steps Watches Doors Sky Minutes Cold Heavy Nerves Gray Hello Floats Wipe Slippery Liesel Spillage

Author:Markus Zusak

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

Littles Matter Hard Age Happened Sky Hard Work Rounds Refuse Obstacles Ruins Fallen Tragic Smooth Habitat

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there's never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile”

Ifs Knows Men Should Mind Heart May Littles Young Secret Failing Sky Fool My Heart Bird And Love Hungry Fearless Sunday Love Yourself Pulling Thirsty Supple

Book:100 Selected Poems

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with a particular intensity that makes the most mundane objects in the landscape glow with an unusual radiance, so that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting, even beautiful? Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time.”

“The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.”

Littles Seems Purpose Sky Devil Plant Fingers Setting Settings Desert Dry Reaching Brown Tall Tails Barrels Majestic Pears Beavers Cactus Wasteland

Book:The Stargirl Collection

Source: The Stargirl Collection

“There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Littles Reality Light Heaven Stars Seeing Magic Sky Streets Building Planets Fit Moon Street Lights

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.”

Source: Self Portrait Che Guevara

“Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.”

Firsts Wells Littles Lasts Night Stars Imagination Dark Feet Sky Cold Moon California Drag Last Night Oh Well Flare

Book:The diary of James Schuyler

Source: The diary of James Schuyler

“A cold blast hit him and he laughed at the sting as he stepped outside, surveyed the night sky, and drank deeply. Such a good liar he was. Such a good one. Everyone thought he was fine because he'd camo'd his little problems. He wore a Sox hat to hide the eye twitch. Set his wristwatch to go off every half hour to beat back the dream. Ate though he wasn't angry. Laughed though he found nothing funny. And he'd always smoked like a chimney.”

Littles Problem Dream Eye Night Found Hours Half Sky Fine Cold Beats Angry Hats Liars Laughed Drank Blast Night Sky Half Hours Chimneys Good Liar Camo

Book:Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at that dirty dog! Look at that burned-down house! Look at that red sky!’ And the child points, and you look, and you see, and you start going, ‘Wow! Look at that huge crazy hedge! Look at that teeny little baby! Look at the scary dark cloud!’ I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world – present and in awe.”

Thinking World Trying Looks Children Littles House Dark Sky Crazy Dog Huge Baby Walking Red Clouds Scary Supposed To Be Dirty Awe Openness Wow Reverence Burned Dark Clouds

Author:Anne Lamott

“Like the sweet moon keeps the sky Like the wind goin' whooshing by When those ol' sunbeams break the day I will keep you while you play Just as ol' river keeps the fishes And little stars keep silver wishes Just as the ocean keeps the blue I will stand here close to you. When all around is dark and deep When them ol' shadows slowly creep Even when you're fast asleep It's you I'll keep, it's you I'll keep No need to cry, no need to fear I will always be right here. I will always be right here.”

Needs Littles Play Wish Stars Dark Break Sky Cry Sweet Wind Moon Ocean Shadow Rivers Blue Fishes Silver Creeps Sunbeams

Book:The Underneath

Source: The Underneath

“The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.”

Men Littles Made Age Earth Language Wish Stars Existence Sea Sky Discovery All Things Infinite Bounds Disappointment Variety Infinity Unlucky Lapses Rascals

Author:Lord Byron

“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”

Ifs Way Littles Opinion Sky Lays Rose Behave Little Things Tranquility Niece

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.”

Looks Littles Universe Differences Race Meditation Sky Boundaries Look Up Horizon Insignificant Castes Specks No Boundaries Clouds And Stars Clouds Sky

Book:East of the Sun: A Novel

Source: East of the Sun: A Novel

“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.”

Ifs Looks Littles Used Tree Sky Stranger Look Up Existentialism Trunks Overhead Dead Trees

Author:Albert Camus

“I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.”

People Littles Dark Chance Break Sky Dark Sky

Book:On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret abyss in which others find their end: again and again the two of us go out under the ancient trees, make our bed again and again between the flowers, face to face with the skies”

Knows Littles Two Ends Faces Names Language Secret Tree Sky Flower Bed Ancient Again And Again Abyss Face To Face Two Of Us Language Of Love Ancient Trees

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.”

Littles Moments Turns My Own Pleasure Laughing Sky Minutes Ten Rain Smoke Little Things Camels Cheeseburger

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.”

Men Kind Littles War Soul Hands Lying Dies Fighting Born Sky Fields Lovers Battle Thousand Glory Kingdoms Ran Thirst Corpses Babe Maidens Drills Unexplained

Book:War Is Kind

Source: War Is Kind

“All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--”

People Men Littles Different Problem Light Stars Wealth Sky Silent Guides Scholar Businessman Different Peoples Traveller

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.”

Inspirational Mind Littles Seems Stars Fear Nature Inspiring Doubt Sky Quiet Anxiety Sight Blue Calm Impart Blue Sky

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“the rain is coming. little sister, the night broke. the thunder cracked my brain finally. the rain is coming, i promise you. i didn’t mean to but your tears will bring life back. purple flowers grow, the colour blood looks in the veins. they’ll sprout out of my chest. i promise you they’ll crack the ground, grow over the freeways, down the slopes to the sea. i’ll be in their faces. i’ll be in the waves, coming down from the sky. i’ll be inside the one who holds you. and then i won’t be.”

“There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.”

Littles Problem Beautiful Common Cities Consciousness Fire Greater Sky Streets Source Bears Protect Safe Approach Variety Smoke Flames Holocaust Hunting Vocabulary Stains Resonance Syntax

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.”

Want Wells Looks Littles Loses Sky Blue Gray Wet Gray Skies Marianne Dashwood

Author:Emma Thompson

“The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye.”

Littles Eye Beautiful House Powerful Fire Violence Sky Strange Distance Silent Flames Rising Sparks Complaints Flocks

Book:City of Thieves: A Novel

Source: City of Thieves: A Novel

“The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly, under the mighty protection of Apollo, who, with a great bronze gesture, lifted his huge lyre to the heart of a crimson sky.”

Heart Children Littles Two Lasts Behinds Steps Sky Huge Shadow Protection Sat Gestures Apollo Clinging Bronze Crimson

Book:The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance

Source: The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance

“Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none.”

Source: The Taming of the Shrew