Past present Quote by Niall Williams

“In the weeks we'd been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the other bank, where time…

— André Aciman

“So all these years—since when?—he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places in the…

— Paz Marquez Benitez

“And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his…

— Jean Giono

“Now, it's full night, clear, moonless and filled with stars, which are not eternal as we once thought, which are not where we think…

— Margaret Atwood

“When we open our eyes to the little miraculous events all around us, life becomes a story of many little resurrections, one after the…

— Laurie E. Smith

“Imagine you are the Earth and he is the Sun, that silence is tangible, and the stars are the souls of your previous lives.”

— Jessica Bell

“And following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-- so far, Through a round aperture I saw…

— Dante Alighieri

“but no matter how far I forgot myself, I never quite lost my sense of being watched over, and when I got particularly lost,…

— Diane Setterfield

“I went outside. Tried taking in the billions of stars above, lingering long enough to allow each point of light the chance to scratch…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“Maybe the heavens were a kind of celestial grave, I thought, the way the earth is a repository for our flesh, and when we…

— Tiffany Baker

“And now the thought came to me that I lived much of my life through the pages of books as well. That perhaps I,…

— Linda Holeman