Of Sunlight and Stardust Quotes

“we’re all made of sunlight and stardust. So maybe, whenever you look at the sky, from morning till nightfall, you’re connecting with them in some small way.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“didn’t matter if your bed was the hard ground or a comfortable mattress, your mind could keep you up regardless.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“He sucks the loneliness out of my bones.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“If you think about it, the straight lifestyle is always the default, so I’m never surprised if it takes someone a while to recognize that part of themselves. Maybe they’d been forcing it out of their mind for so long, it becomes a habit.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“I read somewhere that we’re all made of sunlight and stardust.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“We’re all connected, all made of the sun and stars. Always will be.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“The sound of the trumpeter swans on the lake." I turned my head toward him. "Did you know they mate for life?"
Charlie’s eyes softened before his lips briefly met mine. "Then I guess we’re just a couple of swans looking for a safer pond to wade in.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“to love, that’s the most basic human emotion…and to have people believe that love is wrong…”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“They were sitting on the ground, at the grave of people they didn’t know, hugging. To anyone else, they were mourning family or friends, but they were mourning strangers they didn’t even know if they were alive or dead.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“The place didn’t look lived in because it wasn’t. It was occupied, but Tanner didn’t live in the house. He didn’t do much living at all anymore.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“how naive he’d been about the world at first. He learned rather quickly how to stay invisible as well as useful. “But not that bad if you took advantage of the stuff they offered. The worst thing was having too much time on your hands. So I signed up for classes, read lots of books, kept my nose clean.” “What sort of classes?” Tanner asked, and Cole noticed how his long lashes brushed his cheeks in the sunlight. If he had the nerve, he’d lean over and kiss him right then. “I stuck to the ones where I could use my hands. Woodworking, electric, art classes, even some gardening. I left the education and Bible stuff to the others,” Cole mused, and Tanner chuckled. “My mother left when I was sixteen. She was a kid herself when she had me and was hooked on one drug or another. I didn’t know my father, besides hearing his name once or twice. My grandfather took me in; he was the only real parent figure I knew. He was the custodian in our apartment building and always did construction jobs on the side, so I learned a little bit of everything.” He thought about the night he found out about his grandfather’s death and how he’d cried himself to sleep. His ashes had been buried next to his grandmother’s grave—she”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“Logic told him it couldn’t be—Emma, the house, Cole, the journal, the dream—their names. How had he never thought about the fact that even his and Cole’s names started with the same letters as Tom and Charlie’s? Despite all the coincidences, it couldn’t be real.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“feel this emptiness in my chest…”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“And in the quiet of dawn, I could feel him drifting away from me,”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“gave him a smooch”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“heaving chests and softening shafts.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“we’re all made of sunlight and stardust.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust