"The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean," - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"Concealed behind strong barriers the heart becomes ice." - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
"We're still friends. I just can't trust her or tell her anything important." - Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer
"But, I don't know, maybe it takes a long time to figure out what you're truly searching for. Maybe you spend your whole life to figure out a small part of it." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“And she went into the sea because her core ached and there was no healing.”
May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman", Selected Poems
"'Look at all the colors,' she said. 'It's like the sky is on fire. Burning up the whole day. Nature has so much power if we just pay attention." - Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer