Constellations Quote by Alison Uttley

“...and to his eyes, casually glancing upward, the silver and black-stemmed birches, with their characteristic tufts, the pale grey boughs of beech, the dark-creviced…

— Thomas Hardy

“As the glow of the cabin windows turned to flickers through the trees and then to black, her eyes adjusted and the starlight alone…

— Eowyn Ivey

“Again the starter and the engine, and after a minute or two the rattle and pop of gravel as the DeSoto eased backward out…

— Marilynne Robinson

“We lay side by side on the extension roof, hands behind our heads, elbows just touching. My head was still spinning a little, not…

— Tana French

“Everything waits and moves. Our hearts, beating. The stars, wheeling over the spruce trees.”

— Beth Powning

“I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Silver constellations sparkled across the velvet sky, revealing the mythical creatures that lingered in the valley of stars.”

— Erin Forbes

“They rested and had a light meal, talking quietly and listening from time to time. Twilight was about them as they crept back to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose fell into a…

— Charles Dickens

“She pressed her fingertips to the cold glass. Outside the night was beautiful but frozen. The trees were still as statues. Above the trees…

— Nicola Cornick

“He was completely integrated now and he took a good long look at everything. Then he looked up at the sky. There were big…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Oh! What a miserable night I passed! The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me; now and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley