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“...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink.”
“Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere.”
“No matter how pale and pure and perfect you are, the moon is even more perfect.”
“...the Moon, the enemy of poets...("Merchant's Two Sons")”
“Step out the front door like a ghostinto the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white, and in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference betwe...”
“The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless a...”
“If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon wont change!”
“On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit dawn. For, although the sun is lost to us for ever, the moon, full...”
“The moon climbed out of the ravine, blue, skinny, as if it had been fed on nothing but skimmed milk. It climbed out, and quickly slithered up and up along the finest thread-away from trouble, and o...”
“Since childhood, I had always been affected by the changes of the moon, sometimes very much so. As the light of the satellite fell on my face my mind cleared, and I knew what was to be done. ("Abso...”
“The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North")”
“They try to fight the waves, but they cant fight the moon. They cant fight the worlds rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just dont work out.”
“The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, spring nor fall. A thermal haze of inexpressible sweetness, though bearing tiny bits of grit or m...”
“When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces dont discriminate.”
“Kolya threw his shoes under the bed and went to the window. There was a full moon, light green and ugly, in the sky. It seemed to be hiding behind the treetops, spying. Its light was soft and lifel...”
“It was then between one o'clock in the morning and half-past that hour; the sky soon cleared a bit before me, and the lunar crescent peeped out from behind the clouds - that sad crescent of the las...”
“The moon was a fang in the lightning sky.”
“The moon's a crazy sweetheart.”
“The moon rode in the sky - a hunted thing dodging behind wisps of tattered cloud, and the air was heavy and wet and redolent of dying leaves. ("The Refugee")”
“I was planning on giving them the sun and stars as well. It's kind of a package deal; therefore, the moon is for lovers. The stars are for partners. The sun ... for best friends.”
