The Stars and Their Light Quotes

“reality was bigger on the inside than it seemed on the outside and the only way to discover the truth of this world was to get on your knees and put your head inside the wreckage.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Stars and Their Light

“reality was bigger on the inside than it seemed on the outside and the only way to discover the truth of this world was to get on your knees and put your head inside the wreckage. Jim”
― Olivia Hawker, The Stars and Their Light

“The bishop himself has made his decision. It’s not our place to question a man of such discernment.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Stars and Their Light

“She turned her head on the grass to look at Betty. The girl continued to gaze at the stars, and her face, in profile, was picked out by starlight, sharp and illumined as if by a halo of consecrated fire. Betty was braver than she realized, braver than Mary Agnes could ever be. For she looked full into the face of mystery and found the cold clarity of truth. It, too, was a mirror’s surface. Mary Agnes prayed that Betty’s looking glass would never break.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Stars and Their Light

“Damn this war, anyway, he thought, and damn every war. What good was this to anybody? Men blowing each other to smithereens, flattening cities, setting islands on fire. And all of it getting worse by the day, with ever more horrible weapons.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Stars and Their Light