Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

They both always wished for the same thing when they were sitting on the roof of the aunts' house on those hot, lonely nights. Sometime in the future, when they were both all grown up, they wanted to look up at the stars and not be afraid. This is the night they had wished for. This is that future, right now. And they can stay out as long as they want to, they can remain on the lawn until every star has faded, and still be there to watch the perfect blue sky at noon.

A girl without freckles is like a night without stars.

My Lord, what a morning,When the stars begin to fall.

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

Who can number the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of eternity?

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

The cold place within me that had frozen and constricted my heart was gone. My heart was like a lotus, and in that little space there was room enough for Osia Theola, for all of Cyprus. For all the stars in all of the galaxies. For all those bubbles which were island universes.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

Now it's full night, clear, moonless and filled with stars, which are not eternal as was once thought, which are not where we think they are. If they were sounds, they would be echoes, of something that happened millions of years ago: a word made of numbers. Echoes of light, shining out of the midst of nothing. It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it's enough to see by.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.