“Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then – our cities and towns cast too much light into the night – but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a tree.”― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
“And what is I was only supposed to burn for a certain amount of time?” I whispered. “What if I was only meant to shine for a while?”
“Then you truly don’t know what stars are meant to do.”
I looked at him in wonder.
“They are meant to give us hope in the face of infinity”.”
― Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Stars grounded her. Their distance offered perspective when she couldn’t see beyond her own pain”
― Lauren Kate, Teardrop
