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“Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming.”

Author:Albert Camus

“As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: 'Love has no ending. 'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, 'I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.”

Stars Heard Sky Streets Love You Fields Lovers Walking Mountain Ocean Rivers Seven Dear Crowds China Evening Dry Hung Harvest Wheat Geese Arches Pavement Railway Salmon Bristol

Author:W. H. Auden

“I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?”

People Thinking World May Children Light Used Stars Grows Cities Growing Up Seeing Generations Air Sky Asking Guides Used To Be Dirty Blank Globes Jewels Sailor Dazzle

Author:Michael Jackson

“The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.”

Persons Long Running Earth Song Fall Stars Taken Sky Tears Kings Smell Endless Grass Cheeks Privileged Cicadas Long Grass

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”

“Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.”

Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

“But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt as high as the depthless night sky and deeper than she could know. She understood, suddenly and keenly, that she was too small to run away, and she sat on the damp ground and cried.”

Knows World Light Running Night Stars Felt Dark Saws Sky Understood Deeper Sat Running Away Cried Night Sky Damp

Author:Shannon Hale

“If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.”

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars”

Men Hands Stars Sky Tides Pillars I Loved You

Author:T. E. Lawrence

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”

“here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)”

Source: Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte

“I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.”

Stars Sky Moon Quarters Salt Handful

Book:Ballistics

Source: Ballistics

“eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you”

People Stars Sky Died Holes

Book:Nineteen Minutes: A novel

Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel

“I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it’s in your lungs, and under your tongue, and between your fingers and toes...” His mouth moved passionately over hers, urging her lips apart. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis. Or at least that was how Poppy felt about it.”

Source: Tempt Me At Twilight: Number 3 in series

“I wrote my will across the sky, in stars”

Stars Sky Pillars

Author:T. E. Lawrence

“There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.”

Different Stars Sky Islands Stars In The Sky

Book:Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

Source: Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

“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

“Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.”

Night Stars White Darkness Sky Building Moon Clouds Hills Temples Magnificent Patches Treachery Sparkling Intoxicated Silhouettes Cedars

Book:The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“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”

Ifs World Ends Body Stars Sides Darkness Worry Sky Skins Wave Floats Mundane

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.”

Stars Sky Rain Incredibles Clouds Midnight Lamps

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“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

“There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.”

Thinking Matter Seems Lying Stars Hours Fire Journey Sky Havens Down And Scholar Strain Sixteen Chalk Our Town Everybody Lies

Book:Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater

Source: Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater

“It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”

Looks Made Used Stars Happened Sky Lays Lovely Look Up Stars In The Sky Huckleberry

Book:Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.”

Seems Happens Stars Sky Six Things Happen Awful Touched Astronaut Sunny Pierce Tuesday

Book:Everwild

Source: Everwild

“I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.”

People Want Needs Firsts Stars Company Millions Sky Shots First Time Fingers Billions Schedules Appointments Live Simply

Author:Holly Black

“Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of night Comes the morn with rosy light. Fold your wings, go to sleep, Rest your gizzards, Safe you'll be for the day. Glaux is nigh. Far away is first black, But it shall seep back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh.”

Source: Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians

“A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said "I do.", and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; we'll rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And I'll be eighty-seven you'll be eighty-nine, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my.”

Years Looks Said Stills Whole Home Stars Gone Sky Rocks Fronts Baby Mets Towns Shining Seven True Love Nine Spots Knees Take Me Cried Eighty Aisle Porch Front Porches Take Me Back

Author:Taylor Swift

“but I know you're the brightest shooting star in the sky - Astrid”

Knows Stars Sky Shooting Shooting Star Stars In The Sky

Author:Michael Grant

“He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.”

Lost Stars Sky Eternity Salt Stars In The Sky Shakers

Book:Local Girls

Source: Local Girls

“I saw a star slide down the sky Blinding the north as it went by Too buring and too quick to hold Too lovely to be bought or sold Good only to make wishes on And then forever to be gone”

Wish Stars Gone Forever Saws Sky Lovely Slides Make A Wish

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.”

Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

“..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”

Looks Light Night Fall Stars Darkness Sky Billions Look Up Blazing

Book:Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play

Source: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play

“Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.”

Way Doe Said Enough Moments Happens Stars Grows Waiting Walks Growing Up Heard Feet Sky Ten Size Caught Woods Now And Then Awkward Caught Up Discouraging

Author:Norton Juster

“We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.”

Love Light Nations Stars Peace Community Sky Thousand Diversity Spread Brilliant Peaceful Broads Character Education Points Of Light

Book:Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

“The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.”

Ifs World Firsts Stars Sky Edges Thrown Silver Purple Handful Edge Of The World

Book:Here On Earth

Source: Here On Earth

“If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Care Stars Chance Millions Saws Sky Towers Thinking Of Others

Author:Lord Dunsany

“One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter" -The Brightest Star in the Sky.”

Matter Stars Sky One Day Stars In The Sky Brightest Star

Author:Marian Keyes

“There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween.”

Ifs Wells Different Courses Stars Memories Space Sky Mines Empty I've Learned Empty Space Nighttime Savannah

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”

Fall Stars Darkness Sky Nails

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”

Moments Joy Stars Forever Wonderful Sky Ready Evening Shooting Fleeting Blink Shooting Star Evening Sky

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?”

Should Looks Dream Asks Stars Black Sky Future Towns Shining France Maps Village Representing Dots

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.”

World Children Night Universe Stars Darkness Sky Possibility Color Listening Sitting Bigger Edges Enjoyed Realms Sunset Twilight Yards Harsh Cricket Frogs Sharp Edges Edge Of The World

Book:Midnight

Source: Midnight

“One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.”

Source: The Illustrated West with the Night

“Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!”

Stars Sky Mines Depth Caught Shed Twinkling This Is Me Twinkling Stars

Book:War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

“Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.”

Earth Moving Stars Enjoy Sun Alive Sky Ocean All Things Rivers Thank God

Author:William Saroyan

“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.”

Light Night Stars Behinds Sky Periods Paper All Things Carbon Night Sky Peepholes

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own.”

Ifs Long Light Faces Stars Saws Sky Naked Radiance Clusters Silhouettes

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.”

Ifs Stills Eye Faces Lying Stars Felt Half Saws Sky Arms Roots Depth Screens Awake Branches Pool Roof Face To Face Nocturnal Vertigo

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars stared back, unblinking, indifferent, unobscured by flying friends. Where was Ron? Where were Fred and Mr Weasley? Where were Bill, Fleur, Tonks, Mad Eye, Mundungus?”

Eye Stars Silence Four Sky Movement Bills Mad Flying Indifferent Weasley Tonks

Book:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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