Raft of Stars Quotes

“You have permission to forget it, she’d tell him. Just for a minute, just enjoy your pillow, just rest, let it go. Close your eyes and sail away from troubles on a raft made of stars.”
― Andrew J. Graff, Raft of Stars

“I used to imagine a boyfriend who could see me, you know? It was more than attention. I wanted to be known. I imagined us parking a car out by the river, hidden by the tall grass, fireflies everywhere, and I could talk and he would listen and nod, his eyes wide in the dark. And the way I imagined it, he would want to listen. He would want to see me. And he’d listen until he knew everything there was to know.” Tiffany laughed at herself. “There were times I imagined it so long, I ran out of things to tell him, and we’d just look at each other. In a way, that was the best part.”
― Andrew J. Graff, Raft of Stars

“That’s something his mom used to tell him when he couldn’t sleep and worried about not sleeping. You have permission to forget it, she’d tell him. Just for a minute, just enjoy your pillow, just rest, let it go. Close your eyes and sail away from troubles on a raft made of stars.”
― Andrew J. Graff, Raft of Stars

“Jesus, high priest, to intercede on their behalf, to bring the full work of his cross between them and any evil thing coming against them. She reminded the devil of God’s terrifying majesty, his ferocious power. She reminded the darkness that she and Tiffany were God’s daughters, loved and guarded with insatiable jealousy. She shook her paddle at the stars as she spoke, at the forest, as if power flowed from its shaft. The river trembled with her voice, and Tiffany couldn’t tell if the woman was frightening or beautiful. It felt like watching a storm approach, roll in, bend the trees in half. It really was a thing to behold.”
― Andrew J. Graff, Raft of Stars

“but she had always felt, from her anonymous youth through her hungry summer, that she was worth more than the world suggested she was. She”
― Andrew J. Graff, Raft of Stars

“His grandpa had taught him how to tell if a blade was dull by looking at its edge in the sunlight. If the cutting edge reflected light, it wasn’t thin enough and needed touching up.”
― Andrew J. Graff, Raft of Stars

“You have permission to forget it, she’d tell him. Just for a minute, just enjoy your pillow, just rest, let it go. Close your eyes and sail away from troubles on a raft made of stars. And then she’d pray and hum.”
― Andrew J. Graff, Raft of Stars

“to be more than met the eye, things and words and people indwelt with a larger heartbeat, a larger breath.”
― Andrew J. Graff, Raft of Stars

“When you were real little your dad used to scoop you up and tell you he loved you from your heart to the sun. Fish couldn’t remember it, but he could see it somehow, and when he did, he saw sunlight. He’d point to your heart, and then he’d point at the sun, and you’d smile and laugh and make him say it again. And he always would, as many times as you asked him.”
― Andrew J. Graff, Raft of Stars