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41 " Life is like a comet that briefly crosses the night sky without almost being noticed "
― Bangambiki Habyarimana , The Great Pearl of Wisdom
42 " I have never cared for castles or a crown that grips too tight,Let the night sky be my starry roof and the moon my only light,My heart was born a Hero,My storm-bound sword won't rest,I left this harbour long ago on a never-ending quest.I am off to the horizon,Where the wild wind blows the foam,Come get lost with me, love,And the sea shall be our home. "
― Cressida Cowell , How to Break a Dragon's Heart (How to Train Your Dragon, #8)
43 " From the floor, I see the tops of the Philadelphia skyline out of her window. Staring at it, I realize that the night sky isn't really black, which is the way I've always thought of it. It's actually a dark shade of blue, the darkest possible. "
― Siobhan Vivian , Same Difference
44 " At last the magic caught, and she managed to vault clumsily onto it before it trundled into the night sky as gracefully as a duck with one wing missing. "
45 " i witness the birth of the moon and her servants walking the night sky pulling us into their wake "
― A.P. Sweet , The Abattoir of Silence
46 " They stood up and the world was totally different. The wheat was an onyx sea, ever moving in shadow. Above it the heavens were illuminated with the wink of stars and planets, the Milky Way like a giant streak of glimmer slashing across the sky.She was standing right next to him, awed by the beauty of the night sky and their tiny, tiny place in it. It seemed perfectly natural that he leaned down to gently press his lips to her temple. It wasn’t a kiss really, it was a consolation.“Take my hand,” he said.D.J. could see nothing as he unerringly led her through the darkened grain to the edge of the field. "
― Pamela Morsi , Love Overdue
47 " The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead "
― Tegan Quin
48 " Let's grant that the stars are scattered through space, hither and yon. But how hither, and how yon? To the unaided eye the brightest stars are more than a hundred times brighter than the dimmest. So the dim ones are obviously a hundred times farther away from Earth, aren't they?Nope.That simple argument boldly assumes that all stars are intrinsically equally luminous, automatically making the near ones brighter than the far ones. Stars, however, come in a staggering range of luminosities, spanning ten orders of magnitude ten powers of ten. So the brightest stars are not necessarily the ones closest to Earth. In fact, most of the stars you see in the night sky are of the highly luminous variety, and they lie extraordinarily far away.If most of the stars we see are highly luminous, then surely those stars are common throughout the galaxy.Nope again.High-luminosity stars are the rarest. In any given volume of space, they're outnumbered by the low-luminosity stars a thousand to one. It's the prodigious energy output of high-luminosity stars that enables you to see them across such large volumes of space. "
― Neil deGrasse Tyson , Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
49 " New York. The world's most dramatic city. Like a permanent short circuit, sputtering and sparking up into the night sky all night long. No place like it for living. And probably no place like it for dying.(" New York Blues" ) "
50 " We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth. I will honor my mother and take care of my family.Yes, I think. I am just a woman. "
― Kristen Simmons , The Glass Arrow
51 " You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos. "
