" Is that why my ancestors built observatories and looked at the night sky? Did you want them to look at the place you came from?"
"What funny thoughts you have," he said. What would I care about the heavens when I reside in the Underworld?"
"I would care. All I could do sometimes was stare at the sky," she admitted.
"Whatever for?"
"Because it made me think one day I'd be free," she told him. "

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia , Gods of Jade and Shadow