Perseids Quotes

“You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."

Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas—a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Once is glimpsing the Perseid meteor shower--
and, as emotion curves space, I find
a constellation that arcs beyond the visible.”
― Arthur Sze, Sight Lines