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- "And in case you were wondering, you are like a sunset to me. Youre all kinds of beautiful as you end my day. And you sweetly retire as the stars chase you away." The Spill Canvas; Sunsets and Car Crashes
- "And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall towards the centre of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving towards us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing lights of billions and billions of stars, all falling." - Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night Time
- "Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star speckled sky, listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in it’s realm, life seemed to have more possibilities." - Dean Koontz
- "I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream." - Vincent van Gogh
- "I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend…I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend." - Neil Gaiman
- "I was looking at the big bright sky and there were so many stars and I just thought man, “it looks like they would take such good care of you."" - Country Strong
- "If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light years from to get to his." - Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
- "On a really dark night, you can see between 1000 and 1500 stars, and there are millions more that haven’t been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn’t that way at all." - Jodi Picoult
- "Our story is the story of the universe. Every piece of everyone, of everything you love and everything you hate, of the thing you hold most precious, was assembled by the forces of nature in the first few minutes of the life of the universe, transformed in the hearts of the stars or created in their fiery deaths. And when you die, those pieces will be returned to the universe in the endless cycle of death and rebirth. What a wonderful thing it is to be part of that universe. And what a story, what a majestic story." - Professor Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe
- "She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars." - Neil Gaiman
- "Stars should not be seen alone. That’s why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person will surely miss the good ones." - Augusten Borroughs
- "There are days she feels so overwhelmed by everything, she can hardly breathe. She gets overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed, by the importance of not making mistakes, by the huge impact everything she does seems to have on her life. When she comes home after a day like that, filled with anxiety and stress, she lies down on the floor of her apartment and she stares out her skylight for a long time. The stars make her realize once again how small she is. How small her problems are. The stars make her realize that in comparison with the universe, the solar system we live in is smaller than a single grain of sand. She doesn’t matter, just like all people, just like all life on earth. The stars make her feel insignificant in a wonderful way." - ?
- "Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, and live by love though the stars walk backward." - E.E. Cummings
- "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
- "Without the dark we’d never see the stars." - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
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