“The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes...”

“His own true hidden reality that he had desired to know grew palpable, recognizable. It seemed to him just this: a great, glad, abounding hope that he had saved his brother; too expansive to be con...”

“The clear stars before him took to shuddering and he knew why; they shuddered at sight of what was behind him. He had never divined before that strange Things hid themselves from men, under pretenc...”

“So they went running together, silent, toward the vast wastes of snow where no living thing but they two moved under the stars of night.”

“Midnight's the only time where you can be both in the past, present, and future.”

“There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight.”

“The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes...”

“Witches are naturally nosy, said Miss Tick, standing up. Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet again. I will give you some free advice, though.Will it cost me anything?What? I just said it was free...”

“How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?”

“His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.”