Gregory Maguire Quotes

I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Stars appear as pin-points of light. They don't twinkle there as they do when we see them from earth because the atmospheric blanket is not there.

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity.

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.

Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies for you see, love like starlight never dies

Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

a handful of crumpled stars

We only see starlight because all the stars are bleeding.

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.