The Sun Is Also a Star

by Nicola Yoon

Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that, they can be a compass.

And another thing: all your future histories can be destroyed in a single moment.

It’s like knowing all the words to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising.

Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.

Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it’s difficult to imagine that everyone else isn’t feeling it too.

Or maybe it’s simpler than that. A simple search for connection. To see. To be seen.

Can you imagine if everyone had the power to mess with everyone else’s lives? Chaos.” But of course, this is the problem. We already have that power over each other.

But here is a true thing: Almost everything in the night sky gives off light. Even if we can’t see it, the light is still there.