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“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”

— Madeline Miller, Circe, Share via Whatsapp

“She wanted it so keenly that a spark of hope wedged between her ribs like one of those stars, glimmering against all reason.”

— Natalie C. Parker, Steel Tide, Share via Whatsapp

“I like the stars. It s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend...”

— Neil Gaiman, Brief Lives, Share via Whatsapp

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, Share via Whatsapp

“I love the stars. Because they can t say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.”

— Natsuki Takaya, Share via Whatsapp

“Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher, Share via Whatsapp

“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”

— Ptolemy, Share via Whatsapp

“When you listen to me, I think the stars will fall.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash, Share via Whatsapp

“Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.”

— Peter Watts, Blindsight, Share via Whatsapp

“Supposing I know of a flower that is absolutely unique, that is nowhere to be found except on my planet, and any minute that flower could accidentally be eaten up by a little lamb, isn t that important? If a person loves a flower that is the only one of its kind on all the millions and millions of stars, then gazing at the night sky is enough to make him happy. He says to himself My flower is out there somewhere. But if the lamb eats the flower, then suddenly it s as if all the stars had stopped shining. Isn t that important?”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, Share via Whatsapp

“I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break. Inside, though, I was already broken.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants, Share via Whatsapp

“One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.”

— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver, Share via Whatsapp

“I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants, Share via Whatsapp

“Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.”

— A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, Share via Whatsapp

“Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.”

— Paul A.M. Dirac, Share via Whatsapp

“and everything burned in blue, everything a star”

— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets, Share via Whatsapp

“Stars and shadows ain t good to see by.”

— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Share via Whatsapp