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“The moon is the friendliest of the celestial bodies, after all, glowing warm and white and welcoming, like a friend who wants only to know that all of us are safe in our narrow worlds, our narrow y...”
“Moon, moon, rise in the sky to be a reminder of comfort and the hour when I was brave.”
“Being a star is depressing.It twinkles but is distant and cold.I'd rather be the moon, Shine in your glory and go around you forever!”
“And there was the moon. A warm and visible greeting, a beacon of relief. Full, unshrouded, its edges crisp. It looked like an airy wafer- what were those crackers that came in the big green tin? Sh...”
“I realised that the moon was not a safe place. It knew a thousand ways to kill you if you were stupid, if you were careless, if you were lazy, but the real danger was the people around you. The moo...”
“The night became silver again; looking up, it was as if they saw the moon sailing through the clouds instead of the other way around; racing smoothly across the sky, passing puffs and wisps of clou...”
“The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.”
“Nights would have been expressionlesshad it not been for the moon.The moon, I say, is a mood.”
“A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. thats why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.”
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an e...”
“I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see,As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me.”
“Bet I know something else you don't. There's dew on the grass in the morning.'He suddenly couldn't remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable. 'And if you look'she nodded...”
“You may want to change the place or the direction of the Moon or you may do something more practical: You accept the Moon as it is!”
“Sun adores the bodyMoon romances your soul ...”
“We must strive to be like the moon.' An old man in Kabati repeated this sentence often... the adage served to remind people to always be on their best behavior and to be good to others. [S]he said ...”
“The moon belongs to the lovers? Yes! But it also belongs to the lonely! It belongs to anyone who needs it!”
“The blank face of the moon looked down wistfully on the pair and tried to lean in just a little closer.”
“The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake waterA woman's shriek assaults the earWhile above, in the sky, inured to everything,The moon looks on with a mindless leer("The Unknown Lady")”
“I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.”
“Look at her good, Lily," she said, "'cause you're seeing the end of something.""I am?""Yes, you are, because as long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think abou...”
