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“The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.”
“~Tonight's Sea~Meet me by the sea, Under the stars. Where we can gaze With our hearts. Today, I am restless, Waiting for tonight's meet. I cannot believe how endlessThese hours can be. I hope the c...”
“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkness by the visible splendors of the constellatio...”
“Under her thick pancake makeup, her sin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy pl...”
“I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.”
“I felt like I was riding into infinity, and soon I forgot I existed as the sky surrounded us in a blanket of stars, constellations the texture of slushies, swirling blue and violet and gold. I was ...”
“The sky [above Tehran] was like a star-eaten black blanket, and so far as I could read them its constellations were unfamiliar. Lawrence speaks somewhere of drawing 'strength from the depths of the...”
“Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying speed to a far corner of the night. In the dark hours before sunrise, constellations came apart ...”
“Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance.”
“Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.”
“If this were an indie movie, we'd start talking about the constellations," Solomon said, looking up at the stars.”
“Felipe focused on the smattering of freckles across her bare left shoulder. For the next hour, he counted each of them out of the corner of his eye--an entire universe's worth. Lost in the constell...”
“The constellation she's named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster--punishment for her mother Casseopeia, who had bragged to Poseidon abou...”
“This probably isnt something youre supposed to say at a moment like this, but I think the moon is seriously overrated. A moment like what? I bite my cheeks, taming the grin that threatens to take o...”
“Thereafter were the stars persuaded to depict compasses and quadrants, stripped of their names, given numbers, all but regimented into a grid, before they had had enough and reverted to their old s...”
“Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them.”
“Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.”
