Pretty story quotes
"One day, I'll be the shining star that you will wish upon every night."
"It’s an interesting word—it’s childhood, it’s innocence, it’s everything that you took for granted that you now wish so fiercely to have once more. To a child, ‘before’ is history, it’s over and done, it’s a thing to leave behind for something new. But as time goes by, it becomes everything. You find yourself looking over your shoulder, reaching out for a fleeting moment, a smile, a bygone embrace that is slipping further and further away each day. It’s all so fragile, filled to bursting with beautiful things and horrible things and it is more than likely that you will see your fair share of both. But looking back, it started with him.
Everything did."
"They say everything in the universe is made of stardust—even you and me. We’ve got stars inside us, and sooner or later, we’ll find our way back home.”
"She didn’t press further, almost ashamed as he stood beside her, and they surrendered to silence for a while. Then again, it wasn’t proper silence, was it? There was the anticipated murmuring of the waves like an audience between scenes, waiting with piqued curiosity for what comes next. There were the heavy, clumsy clouds like curtains, drawn halfway over the spotlight moon. The actors perched on their lighthouse stage, their breathing drawn and catching as they improvised, as they scrambled for the words that weren’t there, words that had not been written quite yet."
