Shooting star Quote by Eleanor Brown

“She spent the foggy day in endless, aimless walking, for it seemed to her that if she moved quickly enough she would escape the…

— Jean Rhys

“She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been…

— L.M. Montgomery

“She lay there with her eyes closed, as if sleep were a shy creature that might venture out if she played dead. But every…

— Frances Hardinge

“She had entered it like a shooting star flashing across the night sky—and she’d evaporate just as quickly.”

— Dörthe Binkert

“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The…

— Virginia Woolf

“And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Her body poised with the tension of a wild animal, ready to pounce - or to flee. So beautiful, he thought. As he voiced…

— India Drummond

“The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and…

— Kiersten White

“Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of bravery beat within her, taking up…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

“When she shut her eyes, her mind grew alert. Her senses opened. All around her, she felt how quickly things formed and were consumed.…

— Louise Erdrich

“The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide of darkness…

— Flannery O'Connor

“As she walked through the dark, stepping softly through the wet stones, she looked ahead to where the first cautious star managed to blink…

— Caragh M. O'Brien