#stella

Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#night #stars #beauty

You’ve made that clear. But why do you assume I’ve done something wrong? Have I ever lied to you, or kept anything from you? I trusted you. You assume I’ve never been hurt and that trust comes easily to me. You’re too busy guarding your own heart to realize that maybe I’m not the arsehole people expect me to be. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#beautiful-stranger #christina-lauren #max-stella #sara-dillon #beauty

A year ago, I was too busy thinkin' about how lucky I was that someone as beautiful and talented as you let me into her bed to be bossy. Now I know you love me, I can be as bossy as I want. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#beauty

After a few minutes Jim was forced to admit that he could recognize none of the constellations. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change. For all their movements, the Japanese aircraft were its only fixed points, a second zodiac above the broken land. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#constellations #state-of-change #war #world-war-two #change

After that there was silence for a while, only the sound of the shovel biting into the earth and the hissing splatter of the loose dirt. They stood him up, his back to the well. In the dark, desperate sky, just above the scalloped line the treetops made, three stars formed a pleading little constellation. No one looked at them, no one cared. This was the time for death, not the time for mercy. ("The Number's Up") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#death #night #night-sky #sky #death

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. ↗

— Rosario Castellanos

#evidence #freedom #laugh #laughter #rosario

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. ↗

— Anthony Marra

#definition #life #phenomena #vital #life

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. ↗

— Amy Tan

#heavens #star #love

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#constellations #love

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#ladders-to-fire #love #stella #this-hunger #love