"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

"You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it."
— Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)

"Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

"I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky."
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)

"Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do."
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)

"If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up."
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)

"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
— Paul Bowles

"I'll figure out how to be truer: to let people go if they need to be let go of, and to hold on tight if that's what's called for. I will pay attention, so I can cross each human heart that comes across my path, cross it as true as I can."
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)

"I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just looking at the sky, being creative, being able to design things. What would happen if we had no sky? Where would we be? Well, obviously, scientifically, without an atmosphere, we'd all be dead.
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— Serj Tankian

"For some reason I believed that if you fell in love it was a guaranteed thing that your path would cross with his, and I never wondered how if would feel to fall in love with a man whose future just couldn't include you."
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)

"This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven."
— Rick Bragg

""I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky".
Scott Fortini"
— Scott Fortini

"Even heaven is hell without you."
— Jeff Thomas

"In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion."
— Ishmael Beah (A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier)

"Did you see the sky today? TALK ABOUT BLUE"
— The Emporer's New Groove

"Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are. "
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)

"I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware."
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)

"Only in a place like this do earth and sky come together in such a way that they bridge into one, and in such a place a person could put up her arms and find herself in heaven."
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)

"And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge."
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."
— Roberto Bolaño (2666)

"The sky is an enormous man."
— Emanuel Swedenborg

"For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky."
— Janet Fitch (White Oleander)

"You got to start thinking, and you've got to let go of the idea that you're something special to somebody, because none of us are, and if you don't, if you don't stop dreaming about that, you're going to end up all snap-snap-snapped to pieces."
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)