185 quotes found
“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.”
“My thoughts are stars i cannot fathom into constellations”
“Why do I go outside at one a.m.and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?”
“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few...”
“Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.”
“Underground, the stars are legend.”
“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...”
“Stars, I have seen them fall,But when they drop and dieNo star is lost at allFrom all the star-sown sky.The toil of all that beHelps not the primal fault;It rains into the seaAnd still the sea is s...”
“Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes....from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.”
“Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”
“How will the ships navigatewithout stars? And then he remembered that the stars weredead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case...”
“Let me peer out at the worldthrough your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder,or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.)Let me see how your blueis my turquoise and my orangeis your gold. Suddenly binarystars, w...”
“The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.”
“They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.”
“Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.”
“How is it possible for one to own the stars?""To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly."I don't know. To nobody.”
“Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.”
“It's kind of sad , the brighter they burn the sooner they die. They're beautiful while they last”
