Or I gaze at the stars, even though it’s disappointing because I can only see half as many stars as in Kunu Yaku. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you want to be a star, you have to be willing to work harder than everyone else to achieve your goals and dreams! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice had been hoping for a Shirley Temple, but it was a Dracula, not too old, starring Bela Lugosi I have to say, it got to me. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A row of hearts and stars framed my name and address, each perfectly drawn in different colors—a rainbow of blue, red, yellow, green, and orange. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Tell the sun and stars hello for me. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The stars were now out, bright enough to make it seem as if the entire world was highlighted in silver. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She looks up, peering as though she is searching for the stars hidden behind the blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The problem was that you needed something really hot–hotter even than the middle of the hottest stars–to forge carbon and iron and the other elements without which we would be distressingly immaterial. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Up—away up, over the narrow street between the tall houses, die stars were blazing. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The branches above created a canopy patched with dark swatches of the sky, embroidered with the stars and falling snow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Dragons, originally, were formed in stars. Which means that your Ground is fire. Walk through fire and you will know who you are.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

All the planets orbit the Sun, the nearest star, an inferno of hydrogen and helium gas engaged in thermonuclear reactions, flooding the solar system with light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I weep to think of each mother who stitches a gold star on her service flag to signify her son's ultimate sacrifice. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I felt as though something in nature had failed, like the sun, or the stars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and threaten to roll over and crush him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, when I look up at my patch of sky, I see no moon, no stars, not a single point of light. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There are US flags and a Puerto Rican flag with a sideways triangle and one star in it, like in the book I looked at. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

How could the stars, sparkle as they might, help me find my way if they kept moving? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We now know that Cepheids throb as they do because they are elderly stars that have moved past their "main sequence phase," in the parlance of astronomers, and become red giants. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“He looked at the sun, the moon, and the stars. He looked at the sky and the clouds. ‘I think I’ll make something even more beautiful,’ he said, so he created Mother Earth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look to the holiday lights in the distance, twinkling like stars, calling out to me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I count my lucky stars—that is, I’m reminded again that there is some luck to be had, even for a washed-up hustler like me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was inlaid with polished wood in the shape of a star, and above them a wrought iron chandelier held a dozen burning candles. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They half walked, half ran up the wide dark street thronged with late-night revelers and lined with closed shops, stars twinkling above them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Copernicus held that not just the solar system but the entire universe was heliocentric, and Kepler denied that the stars have planetary systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light doesn’t go in a straight line, but in a curved path around stars—an effect that the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington went on an expedition in 1919 to observe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As a result of his sighting of the new star Brahe was convinced that, if the structure of the universe was to be understood, much more accurate measurements must be made. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The poster showed a wide expanse of beach, a sweep of sky with a lone star glittering far away. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this sense, stars have parents; and, as is sometimes also true for humans, a parent may die in the birth of the child. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

During most of its life, a star is in an uneasy equilibrium: the propensity to collapse under its own gravity is balanced by the energy that comes from the fusing hydrogen in its center. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you take those three stars of your Eagle and forget ’bout others, you get what we call the Cowherd. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But honestly, I think I would be a very bad reporter because I can’t imagine sitting across the table from a politician or a movie star and asking them questions. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

His dinner—and thus, he suspected, his confrontation with the star—could wait. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The iron gateway blazed its five stars above the gleaming T. As we passed, our young soldier passenger saluted, though no guards were in sight. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woods were dark, but there was a gray light on the snowy path, and in the sky there were a few faint stars. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The something-Christos parrot, I like that. And the track star? Has he won any more medals?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, a blue-clad figure flies with familiar grace out of the mists, silver braid shining, descending upon Red Platoon like a falling star. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the stars in the ink-black sky. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I've gotten e-mail from rock stars, athletes, actors and actresses, and even the President. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salty rain, spiced clouds, and a hint of sweetness from the stars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But as it is, I feel like the sky will light on fire any second now, and all the stars will crash into one another and burn away to ash. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

These same principles led astronomers to take a new interest in measuring distances in order to establish exactly where certain objects—new stars—were in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There’s a café along the Seine River where you can hear the stars come out before they dance in the night sky. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the deep hole below the door Bod could see stars, a darkness filled with glimmering lights. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Paradoxically, the more fuel a star starts off with, the sooner it runs out. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bridge looked more closely, she saw that each star had a paper heart glued to its center, with writing on it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

We color in Grace’s movie star coloring books, which show the movie stars in different outfits, doing different things: walking their dogs, going sailing in sailor suits, swirling around in evening dresses at parties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For every womanly fact of life she doesn’t get told, a star of possibility still winks for her on the horizon. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no light left save that of the stars. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sky was black as pitch, without even the pinpricks of stars in the darkness, and the faint illumination from the back side of the sun was dim and cold, more like mist than light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Long after their voices had faded away, Arya could still see the light of the torch, a smoking star that bid her follow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The dark horizon was softening, and the stars were dimming one by one. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The person at the head of the table was the greatest star of the young science of paleontology. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That light will eventually reach the star, but by the time it does, you will have been dead a long, long time. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then even his blood was golden and glowing, filled with little pinpoints of light, like stars, slowing down, trickling out of him like the turn of constellations across the sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Standing naked in the steamy bathroom, Fang looked like an unloved junkie rock star like he always had, but he looked different, too. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When it came time for me to make these star sightings, I remembered a bet I had made with one of the simulator instructors. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give those to our new star, will you?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One look in our direction and her eyes lit up like stars, and pure, unrestrained joy glittered and shone in them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But for an elderly star left after supernova explosions and other impetuosities with more than several times the Sun’s mass, there are no forces known that can prevent collapse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me the galleys, and I swear that Qarth will have the friendship of Meereen until the stars go out. Let me trade with them, and you will have a good part of the profits.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even Ethyne seemed to shine, like an enraged star. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

These words are like stars in another galaxy, light-years from his reality. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Lord of Light made the sun and moon and stars to light our way, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay,” Melisandre told the wildlings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A thousand frozen stars preside over the quad. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The east had its own charm or fine deep blue, and its own modest gem, a rising and solitary star: soon it would boast the moon; but she was yet beneath the horizon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The average distance between stars out there is 20 million million miles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay, let’s talk about that. Okay, I was curious what the great star Anthony Foster wears underneath his jerseys.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“We’re ready,” Jet Stone Girl and Jet Stone Boy said, pointing to a cluster of stars in the northern sky. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it–the stars not as they are now but as they were when their light left them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A second night came and still the Ents held conclave under hurrying clouds and fitful stars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The star of the football team knew her name. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The sky above them was filled with the twinkling of a thousand stars. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were stars in the sky and a gorgeous white moon. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kvothe had stopped speaking, and while he seemed to be star- ing down at his folded hands, in reality his eyes were far away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations,” she said, “you found me. Gold star for you.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that the universe is so uniform and homogeneous on a large scale, it contains local irregularities, such as stars and galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the end of the letter, he had drawn fifteen stars. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But if the stars are holes in a skin, I become afraid. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for hydrogen, they are all made in stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light of the half-moon and stars tinged the sands blue, purple, and silver instead of the daylight colors of orange, red, and white. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I picked the star off my forehead and looked at it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

There was a new moon that night, and even the stars seemed to be dimmed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A particularly interesting problem is the size of the small departures from uniform density in the early universe that caused the formation first of the galaxies, then of stars, and finally of us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know from my own personal experience working as a team can bring a lot of pressure, especially when you are a star athlete. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the breast of her coat, a mustard-yellow star has been carefully stitched. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Magazines that talked about first dates, the right clothes, teenage TY stars, singing groups, and acne cream, although I didn’t have a need for acne cream. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Standing at the foot of Zeus’s throne, looking up at the stars, was Rachel Elizabeth Dare. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Will you have him at your little apartment, Nell, and offer him to drink from your cup of stars?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of them was called Project Orion after the constellation, a reminder that the ship’s ultimate objective was the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see nothing but the wheeling stars, and away to his right vast shadows against the sky where the mountains of the South marched past. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

About a dozen red stars marked different areas around town. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

To appreciate the full impact of this on Tycho and his contemporaries, you have to remember that at that time stars were regarded as fixed, eternal and unchanging lights attached to a crystal sphere. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Come back tomorrow afternoon. Bring your portfolio and a sketchpad. And tell your brother to give you back the sun, trees, stars, all of it already. I think you need.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

No: that was the same oak tree, the one beneath which the star had been sitting. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

On it, hangs a roughly carved wooden star. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It had to offer shade but be see-through enough to see the stars. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I will see her every day, and we will go searching together for lovely things—gold-trimmed dishes, and a white cat, and a sugar Easter egg, and a cup of stars. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the great dark between the stars there are clouds of gas and dust and organic matter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This system contains two neutron stars orbiting each other, and the energy they are losing by the emission of gravitational waves is causing them to spiral in toward each other. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found Miss Trotter’s storytelling rhythm, turned her fingers into stars, and thrust her spear into the water. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He went to the window and watched the moon follow her path through the stars. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a heavy ring of watery blue sapphire, with a star in its center so pure that I never ceased to look at that ring with wonder. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm had ended; the sky glittered with stars. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a typical galaxy, consisting of a hundred billion stars, a supernova will occur on average once every two or three hundred years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It occurred to him that if a star collapsed to the sort of densities found in the core of atoms, the result would be an unimaginably compacted core. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I listen to Ruby giggling after Grammy tells her that she looks like a movie star in her new glasses, and memories roll through my mind of Grammy clapping too loud at school concerts. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

You are nothing, the darkness seemed to say, in its overbearing presence, in the humbling vastness of the night sky and the cold, innumerable stars. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She looked up at the sky; dusky clouds shifted above, shielding, then revealing, then shielding the stars again. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Curly had never met a movie star or a television actress or a Miss America or a Miss Anything. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hunkered down into my sleeping spot as soon as we finished our meal, before even the first stars ripped through the black. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

You told me you’d take me to your favorite star, that we could actually go there and look down and watch the rest of the world. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I focus on a single star, a single point of light, getting brighter and warmer and more overwhelming. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A star like the Sun will end its days, as we have seen, as a red giant and then a white dwarf. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A light rain is falling as he pulls himself up, and as the air around him clears he sees a row of tiny trees and stars, surrounded by silver gears and black-and-white chess pieces. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It gave birth to galaxies and stars and moons and suns and planets and oceans. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I carry extra stubs of candles for when even that is too dim, since human eyesight isn’t nearly as keen as theirs, but I’m not allowed to light them when we study the stars. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sky showered Beauty with gifts of his loveliest objects—the sun, the moon, the clouds, the stars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

At first, Galileo assumed that Jupiter must be moving aberrantly and the stars must be fixed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I do hope she finds it!” said Jane, thinking of the Red Cow roaming through the world looking for a star to stick on her horn. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The sky was pitch-black, but by now Tally could read the stars well enough to know that the first notes of dawn were only a couple of hours away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I said, and squeezed my eyes shut until I saw stars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was a clear sky full of stars with a bright moon overhead, and we passed the time naming the constellations. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, Cleveland’s sitting in jail. They aren’t going to hold the trial until their three star witnesses are ready to testify.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

So Sun Man knew what to do: He took the flint blade and he cut out the Gambler’s eyes He threw them into the south sky and they became the horizon stars of autumn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She half wondered if she was starring in a movie, or dreaming, or maybe even dreaming about starring in a movie. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then she leaned over, and touched the star's chest, between her breasts, with one cold finger. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He fades as quickly as a star into the dawn. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Its star flowers were forever wide-open, giddy with fragrance. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Eleanor was a little girl, she'd thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

These stars converted some of the original hydrogen and helium into elements like carbon and oxygen, out of which we are made. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tinfoil suns and moons and stars dangle and twist and reflect the sun’s rays back out into the bigger universe. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was covered with a moss green vinyl tablecloth with litde magenta crescents and stars on it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When she died Dionysus took a crown he had given her and placed it among the stars. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was unfair that he was treated like Furball when he had good grades and could name the planets, the brightest stars, and all the constellations. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A book about rockets and space travel written in 1948, a retractable fountain pen, a bottle of dark red ink that looked like blood, and a star chart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew him from starring in campus productions and from leading the drum majors. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t need the name to be afraid or to know who she was: the star of her niece’s funeral. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The largest planet is a star that failed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clean cold air, the constant motion of the treetops, the brilliance of the moon-painted clouds in the dark sky, and the millions of stars all calmed her a little. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t have said anything, because all I did was star- - de her. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

His stars are different from the ones in the Bible: they’re wordless, they flame in an obliterating silence. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only explanation seemed to be that the stars must be very much further away than the planets, at least hundreds of times further away, so that the parallax effect is too small to see. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’d know that my star map is my most prized possession. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I love vintage shopping with you, Dill. You have the body of a seventies rock star. Everything looks good on you.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I looked up at that star twinkling over the mountains, but instead of wishing, I just closed my eyes and breathed in the piney air. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Yelena remembers one of her earliest teachers talking about space, and ever since then Yelena has yearned to be closer to the stars. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The last hint of dusk slowly vanishes from the horizon, and in the sun’s absence, the strange stars are coaxed to shine. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh my precious stars!” she said in her craggy, barky, leafy voice, for she had not yet un-transformed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Just when the moon neared the bright star, a cloud got in the way. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have my work cut out for me staying ahead of Heck and Holler,” he said, referring to the Judge’s sons, who were also star runners on the Manifest track team. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He crossed his ankles and stared up at the stars. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was so black and the stars so many and brilliant. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique can see stars around the ceiba trees shrouding the headstones. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Just as he was used to football injuries, he was also used to lavish attention, as was every former Permian player who had once been ordained a star. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like a flashy Hollywood movie star. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s true. I look like a movie star.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He smiled that movie star smile of his. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But he became more than a household name, more than the equivalent of a pop star. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to be one of the many star witnesses in Jawad Sahib’s trial. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were silver stars hanging up and down the hallway behind the cafeteria, swaying just over their heads. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The twinkle is caused by the starlight having to penetrate the atmosphere, which moves and shifts, but up here above the atmosphere the stars bum steadily and brightly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky is a deep blue, and it’s dark enough to see the stars. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now the purple spread from horizon to horizon, and the stars that had clustered in the east were fading with the early light of the rising moon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We fox-trotted all the way around the seal tank, and still the song kept going on about the stars falling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the opposite part of the sky the stars were already sharp. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared up at the sky for a long time; a shooting star arched from west to east, scattering light behind it like dust on a trail. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

All around them lights glimmered through the mists, a hundred candles pale as shrouded stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She sometimes stays in the lines of her coloring books, and she usually draws stuff like flowers and stars, always in pink. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The night was moonless, but a thousand stars shone overhead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed, staring at glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I slaved from dawn until the stars shone: house chores in the morning, serving coffee in the afternoon, and cleaning after supper. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had star status in the Black Belt, where Democrats were remembered as the party of the slave-owning southern planters, and Republicans as the freedom fighters. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lupita’s youngest sister kept looking up at the sky as if she expected to see the special star that was Papá’s even by daylight. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He described her as "luminous" and said that he could tell she was a star from the moment they met. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was with him again, a heartbeat unbroken where time subsided into dawn, and the sunset gave way to the stars, wheeling across the night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That is the birth of a star. The single most important thing that can happen in space. Well, the single most positive thing, anyway.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And maybe I dreamed about the stars, I don’t know. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He chose the composition of distant stars and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night when I walk to the outhouse, in the dark with no flashlight because I can see better that way, the stars are sharp and crystalline and my breath goes before me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After Grandma Sands gave us directions Byron looked at me sideways and said, “What the hell you star in’ at?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most poems I’ve seen are about love or sex or the stars. You poets are obsessed with stars. Falling stars. Shooting stars. Dying stars.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Scoob just sighs and puts a little star over Vicksburg as they ease to a stop at the top of the exit ramp. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

But instead, I pointed to one of the stars. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He reached in and grabbed the weathered composition book and my heart seized so fast I thought I saw stars. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We live in a galaxy that is about one hundred thousand light-years across and is slowly rotating; the stars in its spiral arms orbit around its center about once every several hundred million years. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had completely disappeared from the sky, replaced by a show of stars. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m about to say no, but then I remember that picture books are super easy to read, and I can add up a whole lotta stars on my board by reading to Charlie. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Once Cha-Cha rescued Duke, Duke would be obliged to return the favor and make Cha-Cha a star. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She wore a black dress, gloves, and a black veiled hat like a star from an old 1940s movie. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I forgot, he’s like some star on the baseball team. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She looks glamorous, with a kerchief over her head and dark glasses like a movie star. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She followed her and found Sosie stretched out on her back in the sand, watching the clouds and stars perform their own choreography. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The second was my first of many drawings, the tornado of stars. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The answer is that the stars are mighty suns, light-years away in the vastness of interstellar space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a dusting of stars set the black of sky apart from the black of stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dad live in a really nice house now that he’s back, and I mean ridiculously nice—the kind of house you see on TV shows about movie stars. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

We girls thought he was like a rock star because he was so stylish. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I flop back on my bed and stare at the stick-on stars on my ceiling. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There are five or six thousand stars that can be seen with the naked eye. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the star would be so dim that it could no longer be seen from the spaceship: all that would be left would be a black hole in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered, counting stars at midnight in a pasture: a girl. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared up at the stars, feeling my thoughts slow and my mind grow calm as the bonobos around me stopped shrieking and dozed off. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There is another way to measure the distance to the stars which the Ionians were fully capable of discovering, although, so far as we know, they did not employ it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood on the porch watching the stars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of clouds masked the stars and the moon, and it was very dark. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the upper left lung there was a bright place like a calcified star. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I draw a boy and a girl swimming through a sea of stars. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every time I see this one particular movie star on a magazine, I can’t help but feel terribly sorry for her because nobody respects her at all, and yet they keep interviewing her. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She gestures at the sky, at the stars beyond the clouds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a heartbeat in those stands that dotted the Friday nights of Texas and Oklahoma and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Florida and all of America like a galaxy of stars, a giant, lurking heartbeat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tilts his head back like he’s laughing at the stars. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We did have our scratchy army-surplus blankets, so we spread them out and lay there, looking up at the field of stars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A number of the authors’ names have been starred with penciled asterisks by previous readers, but there is no sign or mark by Nikolai Gogol’s name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seven stars and seven stones and one white tree. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was clearly a rising star of astronomy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Bird and beast and stone and star—we are all one, all one——” murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I look down past stars to a terrifying darkness. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some stars would have no suitable planets—perhaps they would all be giant gas worlds, or tiny asteroids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head strikes the pavement, and I see a few stars that are not necessarily in the sky. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Like how sometimes people look up at the stars and think that someone far away is staring at the same ones. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“One way or another, I’m going to win this game. I just hope starring in Mr. Lemoncello’s commercials earns me some decent money.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I had never met Rudy, but I knew he was a senior and one of the stars of the basketball team. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was nighttime and we sat by the fire stretching our arms toward the flames as we listened to stories and watched the moon and the stars retire. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even now I can see the whole house, inside and out: a welcome mat at the door, a red kettle on the stove, the million stars shining in through the skylight at night. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She could play the guitar like a regular recording star, and she had this soft floaty voice that made Jesse squish inside. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The fugitives were always clawed back, betrayed by friends, they misinterpreted the stars and ran deeper into the labyrinth of bondage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was a small star tattoo on the left one. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Shah-jan, don't run," my mom calls out, though she's practically hopping to put away the chopping board and the strainer, that metal sky full of stars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I want to scream out, asking why The scattered stars shower down like icicles tonight, but nothing soothes me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There’s Brian in the sky opening up a suitcase full of stars. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A television transmission that has just finished being aired will, in only a few hours, overtake the Voyager spacecraft in the region of Saturn and beyond and speed outward to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, it’s so cloudy, there are no stars in the sky, only fog. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The golden thread on the pale blue fabric still shimmered full of promise, and Bo had to touch the golden stars at least once every day. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

On his desk Golomb has a row of five gold stars, given to him by his dealership in honor of his performance. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Live in the flesh, Sparrow the rock star!” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Latitude could easily be determined by the stars—the farther south you were, the more southern constellations you could see. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a more massive star will spend its nuclear fuel faster, become a red giant sooner, and be first to enter the final white dwarf decline. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where Storm's End stood was only a deeper darkness, a wall of black through which no stars Could shine, but she could see torches moving across the fields where Lord Stannis had made his camp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And he motioned to the Chief Courtier, who presented himself smartly before the Red Cow and began to tug at the star. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

When they turn to white they are blinding, and the shower of sparks falls like stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The stars hung in the chilly sky, while the patterned lights of the city spread below him, streetlights and car headlights and things in motion. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I dress quickly in the modern clothes I keep in the very back of my wardrobe—jeans, an old gray sweater with a black star on it, and a pair of glittery silver Converse high-tops. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This is why the star patterns in a given constellation do not change as we go from, say, Soviet Central Asia to the American Midwest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t the stars in the sky be planets or moons or suns on their own? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The names on this list are famous ones—prime ministers, presidents, pop stars—and beside each name is an amount of notes offered. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Until the previous night, old Betonie’s vision of stars, cattle, a woman, and a mountain had seemed remote; he had been wary, especially after he found the stars, and they were in the north. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great glassy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This star passed out of sight and another took its place. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had serious implications for the ultimate fate of massive stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tall man’s face was raised toward the stars and his gray eyes seemed to see far beyond them. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The same star pictures are there year after year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks up at her, and behind her, at the sky, which holds more stars than he ever has seen at one time, crowded together, a mess of dust and gems. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above him, the wide sweep of sky is spangled with stars. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I still remember how there were no stars. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some people think the Milky Way is a long line of stars, but it isn’t. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The stars give a smaller light than campfires. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately, the stars disappeared and the moon reappeared. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know one star from the other, didn’t know much of anything about the reality of space. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sky god fought with the fury of exploding stars, and, as a lone god, he was targeted by most of the iron monsters. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I whisper my mountain stories in his ear, stories of the ghost women and the stars in their hair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Pardon me, sir, but what worlds would those be? Do you mean the stars?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The stars were so thick, Percy was tempted to stop and gawk at them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His body was made of stars, and he wore a cloak sewn from pure lightning. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the stars that were keeping me awake. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Ionian spirit had won, I think we—a different “we,” of course—might by now be venturing to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” whispered Michael, “she was looking for her star.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They each have a twin bed with matching bedspreads that Stevie picked out, full of space shuttles and star stations. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For six months the stream of stars slants across the sky from, so to speak, northeast to southwest; the other six months it slants from southeast to northwest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jason, because he’s handsome in a British film star kind of way, not a Depp or a Pitt, but a Firth, or a Jason Isaacs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars seemed brighter up here, so close that she could almost touch them, and the homed moon was huge in the clear black sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’d take me outside at night and whisper in my ear about the stars and the moon and the night wind. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Through a clearing in the swirling mass, a cluster of stars could be seen. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“So there is!” cried the Courtiers, as they all suddenly noticed the star for the first time. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

We got the fire going pretty high—almost as high as where Danny hid the flag—and the crackling and snapping and small explosions of pine resin sent out sparks that looked like rising stars. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Right,” she answered, picking the star out of her hair. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The sun was just one among many stars, each surrounded by its own vortex. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Above the screen the western sky was still dark and the stars looked like holes from missed shots. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dad and his camcorder followed Penny around like the paparazzi follow a rock star! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Something evil dwells in this castle, something wicked enough to make the stars quake. Its malice echoes into all worlds,” the queen went on. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nothing does, really, not Grim and Gram or the old stars in the sky, or Freak and the Fair Gwen. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d love to see math and numbers the way I do—in everything from the stars to building construction to ripples on a lake. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The snow fell softly—tiny stars yielding their grasp on the sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And the star that shone over them that night led others to them, and they knew the baby was special too. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

There is an order, a predictability, a permanence about the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the moon and stars been just as brilliant when he was a kid? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They cut across the lawn and headed west, toward the building marked by a star on the Little Comic Con map Rishi was holding. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Impossible. I belong to Jenny Yen. In fact, I’m her biggest star.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“No. They’re sports stars, actors, artists. The men with stringy hair are musicians, I think. The really ugly ones are politicians, and someone told me the fatties are mostly comedians.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The state’s star witness was Bruno Mtolo, or “Mr. X” as he was known in court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these stela portraits, the king’s clothes, chosen to represent his critical spiritual role in the society’s prosperity, generally included a headdress with an ear of maize emblazoned on the front like a star. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After Granny and my mother left, I reclined on top of a huge boulder nearby and gazed eastward at the flickering stars slowly vanishing from a bleak eastern sky. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his hand he holds a machete—blade bitten from who knows what terrible deeds—which gleams with the light of the stars. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nicole had always been talked about, but after the attack she was a rock star. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Papa used to say they were like stars in heaven. Like apples in a tree. “They are little brown dots, child. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Close. It’s the Ring Nebula. The ring is the ejected shell of a star’s outer mass.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Small holes grow, like white stars against the green paint, covered again and again by our mother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

We have launched four ships to the stars, Pioneers 10 and 11 and Voyagers 1 and 2. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once out of my suit, I did some practice navigating, finding several stars and measuring the angle between them and the earth’s horizon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds would hide moon and stars and Mormont's Torch, turning the woods black as pitch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It looks like there are stars on the water and I want to take a walk on it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Almost directly above his head he noticed a star brighter than any other, a star that ought not to have been there. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She decided that she didn’t believe at all what Mrs. Borkowski said about daylight stars and deep holes. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He says you can see the stars much better when most of the lights in the city are off. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They need to be glued, Lisa,” I said just as the plastic star fell down on her head. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

People everywhere wear yellow stars on their coat sleeves, even on their best dresses. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Other star systems are accessible to the human species, but only after great effort. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many limbless movie stars do you know?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Maggie and I often crossed paths on moonlit nights and sometimes stopped for a talk or a salt-and-pepper lesson about the stars or the weather. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now imagine a source of light at a constant distance from us, such as a star, emitting waves of light at a constant wavelength. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white-out vanished, the stars blazed out, and San Francisco called to Miyax. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prince Cardan is waiting for me in the clearing, lying on his back, as though he’s been counting stars. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From their point of view, all nearby star systems are more or less equally attractive for exploration or colonization.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Arabs were among the first seafarers, and they navigated using the stars. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its petals are spread out in the shape of a star. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later you can see that the stars are not harmed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to explain to Maddy what constellations were, telling her they were stars connected in the sky to make pictures. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I protested, but only mildly, because it smelled incredible, like lemon and stars and boy. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As we run the Big Dipper backward into the past, allowing for the motion of its stars, we find quite a different appearance a million years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gathered around, and she opened it, and she almost screamed when she saw the sapphire with a star in it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Russians couldn’t take the sun or the stars. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

However, if that happened the intervening matter would eventually heat up until it glowed as brightly as the stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of them is made up of a huge number of stars, hundreds of times bigger and hotter than our own sun. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

High above him the stars glittered and gleamed, and the harvest moon shone golden yellow, the color of ripe corn. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was to be a grand affair, complete with a barbershop quartet, pony rides, caramel apples, a pie-baking contest, a bocce tournament, and an evening promenade under the stars. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“SemperVIVum, man. It’s like this flower that’s hard to kill. It kinda looked like a star inside a star inside a star.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He pondered the faint, red dot among the stars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

An officer in the Royal Navy, and here’s a picture of him with other officers all having dinner with a famous American film star Jean Harlow. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And one of the dogs was a TV star not named Fred. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The spike is the funky 1960s green thing we put on top of the tree instead of an angel or a star. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Clean night air flows through a constellation of gaps in the rock ceiling, and I can barely make out the stars. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then, these ladies started talking about the one star I mentioned before, and they both had very strong opinions. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The one-armed smith had left few personal effects: the cup, six pennies and a copper star, a niello brooch with a broken clasp, a musty brocade doublet that bore the stag of Storm’s End. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars—billions upon billions of stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With so many galaxies and therefore so many stars, it is inevitable that there are more planets than our minds can imagine. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I look up and I see Jenny Flick, arms folded, glaring at me, and Bill Corso, the school’s semi-illiterate star quarterback, standing behind her. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Outside, it was the first really cold night of winter, and the only fire in sight was the stars high above us and far away, glittering like ice. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The stars didn’t so much twinkle through the pines as sever them. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The sphere of fixed stars is the outer ring. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like Tycho before him, he saw the supernova as undermining the Aristotelian notion of literally fixed and eternal stars. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

This last entry was written in red ink and decorated with a border of green-ink stars; the anthologist wished to emphasize its “personal significance.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had curled herself up tightly, her arms around her knees, and sat in the complete darkness, blood spangling the silk of her dress like the gloaming stars first bleeding into evening. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dots are the stars; they’re moving farther and farther away from one another all the time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The child was sitting very straight at her desk, the head held high, the mouth compressed, the eyes glittering like two stars. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only light now came from the silvery ghosts, who were drifting about talking seriously to the prefects, and the enchanted ceiling, which, like the sky outside, was scattered with stars. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the heavens, five bright blue stars climbed out of the horizon and up into the studded sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She was seeing stars, but mostly she was mortified. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the chapters ahead, I’m going to introduce you to one kind of outlier after another: to geniuses, business tycoons, rock stars, and software programmers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When I picked it back up it was filthy all over, including the place where the star had been. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo digested this idea as she stared up at the stars. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As pressure in the star increases, the exclusion principle states that electrons inside must move faster and faster to avoid one another. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rubs my palm with his thumb like he did two summers ago beneath the stars. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The robins and wood thrushes and other small birds that navigated by the stars at night fluttered down into the trees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We were to do our own navigating by measuring the angle between various stars and the horizon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three stars with the crossed swords and crown above. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The stars above the hill were no stars his eyes had ever seen. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was hoisted to the center of the sky as I ran, a big stage spotlight among the smaller bulbs of stars. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I might yet once more see the Hall under the ray of her star. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In 1921, Eubie Blake’s Shuffle Along became the first musical comedy written by African-Americans and starring African- Americans to run successfully on Broadway. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There was no letter in the Jewish stars though. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few bright stars lingered in the cobalt sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ceiling looks like a night sky covered by a sheet of stars, with green and red streaks of what look like Northern Lights dancing from one end to the other. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her dress was made of stars plucked from the sky, and the whorls of crystals in her gray mask glittered. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The entire underside of the dome looked like space as seen from the Hubble telescope: A dusty spiral nebula billowed up, a galaxy of stars twinkled, and meteorites whizzed across the ceiling. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He’d had to make his way alone, and no one — not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Candy Man is a trip, but the kids love him because he used to be a star.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We he back, her head on my shoulder, and, as if I ordered them, the stars are clear and bright. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the same way, by looking at how a star’s light spectrum gets shifted, astronomers can deduce how fast the star is moving—toward us or away. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“He starred in some things,” said my mom. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother proud and small, her black hair twisted into a bun at the base of her neck, a silver star glinting at her chest like a sheriff. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her nights were lit by distant stars and the shimmer of moonlight on snow, but every dawn she woke to darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They stitched uneasily, the needles faring through the dark material with a long gleam Hke falling stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presidents of corporations, state governors, movie stars — people he didn’t know but nonetheless understood to be lonely, and afraid of failure. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re awfully thick to be the Arcanum’s bright new star. Think it through. Would I stay in business if I made a habit of malfeasance?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But the stars are in her eyes, those bright twinkling orbs. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And the stars flamed in the sunlight, for they were wrought of gems by Arwen daughter of Elrond; and the crown was bright in the morning, for it was wrought of mithril and gold. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Martin’s new friend looks like a movie star!” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Tristran looked at the star, then, and he began to smile, and he said nothing at all. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I point at the drawing behind her, a beautiful picture of lungs, flowers pouring out of the inside, a backdrop of stars behind them. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He finds Luna in his office, horn-rimmed reading glasses doing nothing to detract from his usual appearance of a movie star who tripped and fell sideways into politics. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Deny accidents and wrest fault from the stars. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This child’s got some serious smarts! She’s going to be our star in this program.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We sped by Chili’s and Borders and Christiana Mall, and eventually, the snow started falling harder, white dashes shooting at the car and past the windows like light trailing from a thousand stars. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

‘There’s only stars, as I thought,’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But the star of the picture is Simon. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The star players, the bench players, even the manager pitched in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if the stars are campfires in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a navigator moves farther north or south, the height of a star above the horizon changes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Everything within the cage rotates slowly, the silver stars sparkling as they catch the light. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Under the light of the stars, she drew a folded page from her vest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He wasn't the best student or a star athlete or a musician or an artist. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

For voyages beyond the nearest stars, something else must be done. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twinkling with colored lights, shiny balls, white doves, jeweled icicles, and miles of silver tinsel, it was topped by a brilliant star and skirted with gifts wrapped in finery. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The forty-foot ceiling has been transformed into the night sky, and the stars look exactly as they do at home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

During lunch, April talked a lot about Hollywood, and the movie stars she’d met and the big parties her mother gave and things like that. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The amateur tattoo artist who gave her the first star in her galaxy. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"If you touch me," said the star, "lay but a finger on me, you will regret it forevermore." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was so proud to stand under the stars and stripes in that arena. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was raining when I came out, no stars, sky black as the ceiling of the movie house. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It got darker and the stars winked on, one by one. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They ranged from discreet golden lights that dripped twinkles to giant displays of snowmen and teddy bears and multicolored stars. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I watch the second star appear in the deepening blue black outside. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It takes your eyes a few moments to adjust, and then tiny dots of light begin appearing like stars, lining the dark walls in front of you. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just as his movements became automatic, she threw another star at him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In an optical photograph of a dense star field, there are hundreds of thousands of stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars were bright now and he saw the dolphin clearly and he pushed the blade of his knife into his head and drew him out from under the stem. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if there was an electrical failure on board the spacecraft and the astronauts needed to navigate back home by the stars, like the mariners of a simpler age? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After Aurelia's first year clean, she and my mother got really, really bad star tattoos as a way to celebrate. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The stars were silver in the night, and I tipped my head back and studied them. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The stars were white and sharp beyond the flesh of the Martian, and they were sewn into his flesh like scintillas swallowed into the thin, phosphorescent membrane of a gelatinous sea fish. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The star is back in the meadow, though, right now. But I did what you asked me to do." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the sky, wondering if the stars would be pretty here. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Erin is also looking up at stars tonight, maybe sitting on some roof somewhere, thinking about me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his hand was the open suitcase and out of it spilled a whole sky of stars. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"Constellations. Like connect the dots, except with stars, you know?" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Without someone guiding us,” Zeitoun finished, “wouldn’t the stars and moon fall to earth, wouldn’t the oceans overrun the land? Any vessel, any carrier of humans, needs a captain, yes?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Tall goddess among women, she lifted out one robe of state so royal, adorned and brilliant with embroidery, deep in the chest it shimmered like a star. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face began to glow as though it had become like one of the stars. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

For example, all the iron in your blood which stops you from being anemic was made in a star. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Convulsions made the man dance flappingly all the time, made him change his expressions, too, as though he were trying to imitate various famous movie stars. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Blue. As bright as blue stars, and as cold." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If the coach was right about me, that I could be a star, I was all in for that experience. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Here, the angle being measured is not between the observer and two distant objects, but rather the stars are being read as if they were the hands of a clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He looked a little like a budding movie star. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the figure that we call a serpent, a star which shone green and which I knew. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sends the solar system, in the form of a plastic mobile, and stars you can stick on the ceiling that light up at night. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not destined to be one of our star servants. That is already abundantly clear.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

This makes it more difficult for light from the star to escape, and the light appears dimmer and redder to an observer at a distance. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how at night the bush crickets had sounded like creaking stars and amplified the fear and gloom that hung over the Ayemenem House. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now it’s only the dust; no one has seen a star in years, at least not from Earth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just like in our room, where a window should be on the outer wall, a metal insert obscures the view outside to the stars, and maybe my first view of Sagan. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She pulled a set of throwing stars from the folds of her clothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A supernova occurs when the gravitational force of a star’s core becomes greater than the star's energy output. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He touched the stars at his collar with his thumb and forefinger. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And no shade on therapy...Just didn’t want to talk to some stranger about my subconscious fear of former kid-show stars and merry-go-rounds. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They pay attention to videos of cats playing pianos, or to which movie star is in rehab, or to who stole who else’s boyfriend. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I had Darin, who loomed so large in my life that I thought him immortal as the stars. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Every night the stars filled the sky like snowflakes falling on black stone and then melted away as the sun mounted. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

My mom named me after Claudette Colbert, a movie star back then, supposedly because we both had high cheekbones. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The light from a galaxy is the sum of the light emitted by the billions of stars within it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared into the sky, like maybe the stars would spell out a half-decent answer for me, or any answer at all. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fell into the stars in a rush of air and ether. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a smiling star in little booties, holding a burger and a shake. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“My stars, this sure is a big mess, isn’t it?” she said, walking over the ruined land near the volcano. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I have created the stars and the sun and this enormous house, but I no longer remember. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They entered the wasi, and the star woman walked to her pot. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

So deep and narrow was that chasm that the sky was dark, and in it small stars glinted. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Out of the total blackness of her clothes it blazed like a star. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The guys discussed all sorts of things,” he remembered, “like marriage, divorce, the high divorce rate among Hollywood stars.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Computers spent their lives studying photographic plates of stars and making computations–hence the name. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I know what I’m supposed to tell you now! About the stars!” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The night was clear, and I could see what must have been millions of stars. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They fell from the sky like shooting stars with brilliant, rippling tails, showering the neighborhoods below with prizes for the kite runners. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother walked with the stars in her hair. The rest of our company squatted around her and picked out equations in mud.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She has a yellow star on her coat sleeve. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Venus was only a planet, he went on, and pretty dinky compared to real stars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the dark planet is, from our perspective, to the right of the star, the star will be pulled a little to the right, and conversely when the planet is to the left. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The constellations glittered in the black sky, a star streaking across it like a shimmering loose thread. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Distant galaxies revolving about one another follow the same laws of gravitational physics as govern the motion of an apple falling to Earth, or Voyager on its way to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear less honking in the distance, and fewer lights interfere with the stars. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was early dusk, the deepening sky just beginning to fill with twinkling stars. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The stars are still out when Bailey reaches his oak tree, his bag slung over his shoulder. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a crown on her head, with a star on top. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I squeezed them tight, until I saw silver stars on the insides of my lids. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the vast majority of stars, there is only one characteristic feature that we can observe—the color of their light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Astronomers have watched stars dance around an invisible partner; the stars’ motions reveal the presence of the black hole even if the black hole is not visible. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe the sun is the sun only to earth, but to all the other planets, it’s just a star. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to describe—hands reach upward and dozens of yellow crosses race across the ceiling like stars or airplanes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not out of the question that Fabyan was eavesdropping on his star employees to make sure they made no attempt to leave Riverbank. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The last painting is a dark sky filled with stars over a quiet village. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Through the hole in the stone the glow twinkled and shone blue-white as any star. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him ‘as something divine that men could know the motions of the stars so accurately that they could long before foretell their places and relative positions’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Far ahead, she saw a bright star on the horizon. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when he climbed into his sleeping bag under the stars had his disloyalty struck him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The stars are the friends of explorers, then with seagoing ships on Earth and now with spacefaring ships in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Christmas tree’s already up, next to the altar, full of tinsel and a shiny gold star on top. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’s huge—actually eight posters that I taped together—and shows all the major stars, constellations, and sections of the Milky Way visible from the Northern Hemisphere. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Identical smiles peek out from underneath thick wool scarves, the holiday lights at the park down the street twinkling above our heads just like the stars in her drawing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was purple and lavender, and had designs of the sun, moon, and stars stitched all over it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, I asked the librarian for something on stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the lights, like stars strung in the pines. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the stars, thinking, and Dimple felt her heart banging in her chest, afraid of what he was going to say. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bryce said, “You got to look for falling stars. Them are the ones with magic.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Buttercup stared, and as she did, the waters of Florin Channel seemed as filled with light as the sky was filled with stars. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the same way about some movie stars who are terrible to watch. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As afternoon turns to evening, he has us counting falling stars, which is a dull but relaxing task. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We children would range around him, but it was only when he reached the steps that he’d wind up his arm and throw the ball over the light post and toward the stars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on top of the cupboard were baskets filled with pieces of candy glittering in silver and gold wrappers like distant stars. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fastest object ever launched by the human species, it will still take tens of thousands of years to go the distance to the nearest star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made the fire climb high in the air, as if to set the stars alight. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Scattered around the cobblestones, the remnants of bassal were sputtering out like tiny blue-white stars. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Roy Rogers is so a movie star,” I said, puzzled by her ignorance. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

When my music shifts to the Moana song, I talk about how the Polynesians followed maps in the stars. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

"For infinity," says Gerhard, who is nearly four years older than Helmuth and knows about heavenly things like planets and stars and suns and moons. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Log walls led up to a vaulted ceiling painted blue to resemble the night sky; the stars blistered and peeled away as flames crept across them. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the Eye of Meshe are all the stars, and the darknesses between the stars: and all are bright. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For this one I’d wear pink feathers, purple stars, if that were what he wanted; or anything else, even the tail of a rabbit. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars were brilliant and hung low in the sky. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe there are more stars from this view. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry; in secret chambers withered men compounded strong elixirs, or in high cold towers asked questions of the stars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Tonight we will go on a journey—without a map or a GPS. Tonight we will travel using only the stars to guide us!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“You know the stars are candles in the sky. Every evening, the angels come out and light them for us, so if we lose our way, we can still see.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny couldn’t imagine floating in the darkness, in the cold, with only the stars for company. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“See that? Well them orphan they better star applyin to the United Fun,” Jones said and blew' some smoke on the daggers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He points to the magazine, at a picture of a track star wearing a gold medal. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

In some seasons there are many falling stars; in others very few. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sun was a star, but close up. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a museum,” Poppet says, overlaying the pieces in her mind and seeing where they match up with the building she has already seen in the stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Night came on and the half-seen heads of the mountains westward were crowned with stars, but the East was dark and blank. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Instead of sleep I counted the stars and kept six on the individual breathing of each remaining member sleeping in their tents around me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Not this lot—none of them looked likely to have anything to do with a film star. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Let’s grab some food. I’m starving. Come on, rock star.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The western sky was a blaze of red, but to the east the first stars were peeking out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sparks fly from shooting stars, birds flame and disappear like miniature phoenixes in her hands. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A few evenings later, Lev and I are sitting in the grove as the first few stars appear through the treetops. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Straight above were the stars, but their brilliance served only to emphasize the blackness of Egypt here below. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The light of rising or setting stars bouncing off the ocean? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But that day, she was like a movie star. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I can’t just spend my time gazing up at the stars. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

And he turned and looked away to the North under the great stars, and then he fell silent and spoke no more while the night’s journey lasted. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was glad Gat didn’t try to sound knowledgeable about constellations or say stupid stuff about wishing on stars. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I turn to the page, and someone has underlined these words: “Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Looking up in the sky, I saw that the stars were brighter now. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He swallowed water from the canteen and watched the sky for the autumn evening stars to appear. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In his dreams, they would have been alone—maybe looking at the stars. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will tell you. The sun is nothing but a dying star. Someday, it will go out. Phhhhtttt.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The sky was brushed clean by the wind and the stars were cold in a black sky. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness, save for the useless oblong of stars, was blanket-thick. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Pick out your favorite star,” Dad said that night. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ain’t sure what the standard protocol is, if there is one, but I might as well ask for the sun, moon, and stars while I’m at it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was a warm, clear night, and it seemed that the stars were putting on a show. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I blew out a breath and looked at the stars glittering in the lake. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was still looking up at the stars like he was thinking about the light pollution problem. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

What it meant was that in New York, you could never see the stars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look out the window to see lights—dozens of them in the predawn darkness, constellated like stars. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shoot air rifles at paper stars and barely get two of the legs off. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When we drive back to American Street, all the lights look brighter, maybe there are more stars in the sky, and this city is more beautiful than it has ever been. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“She made him a picnic. They’re going to watch the stars out by Murray Creek.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two shooting stars passed over through the sky. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And the stars overhead were alive with the promise of Hrothgar’s vast power, his universal peace. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waxing moon was climbing slowly above the hill that overshadowed them, and the stars above the hill-top faded. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I see shapes in the clouds by day and shooting stars by night. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He’s one crazy dude. I feel like he’s either going to murder everyone or be, like, a movie star. There’s no in between for that guy.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As interesting as this was, to the Pythagoreans the most important property of the pentagram was not in this self-replication but was hidden within the lines of the star. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

How many notes did I once write, full of secrets and stories and folded into a perfect star? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The place where the star had been sewn on was cleaner and newer-looking than anywhere else on the jacket, and you could still see the outline of the star. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Neutron stars would not be detected until 1967 and hard evidence of black holes not found until the twenty-first century, underscoring Oppenheimer’s achievement and the tragedy of his curiously unfulfilled career. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I wondered as I watched the stars, really seeing them for the first time, whether they could see me, too. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The moon was dark, and clouds obscured the stars. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

With the stars in her eyes and the Hill under her feet, she’ll never stop fooling herself into wanting the whole world. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars began to shine all around us, and the path of stardust and moonbeams reappeared beneath our feet. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The moss was thick on the overhanging trees and the light of every star was extinguished in the leafy chapel through which Ben and Mary Anne walked home. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars that could no longer guide me home. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Whether they had been born free or in chains, they inhabited that moment as one: the moment when you aim yourself at the north star and decide to run. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In Understanding Our Universe I read that stars are really distant suns. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, these grandmasters commanded as much prestige in Soviet society as a movie star or an Olympic athlete does in contemporary America. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My skin gleamed like the morning star and I felt as hot as the centre of the sun and I smelled God knows like what. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole mumbled as the breeze drifted sparks upward like wandering stars. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At this point, the star is so dense that every teaspoon weighs hundreds of millions of tons. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But I don’t see how wandering stars can be holes in a skin. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quiet counting of the stars, and observation of their movements, came first from desert places. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther downstream in the middle of the river, Velutha floated on his back, looking up at the stars. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light was sucked from the environment right up to the stars, which vanished. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In Alabama only lights I saw at night were the moon and stars. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was night in the glade by the pool and the sky was bespattered with stars beyond counting. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the next few decades we should have definite answers to which of the hundred nearest stars have large planetary companions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the open air, her voice seemed to float all the way up to the stars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Outside, a swirling lance of jade light spit at the stars, filling the room with’ green glare. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mark looked up at the branches of the trees, finding a clear spot that revealed brilliant stars overhead. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And now the day was quite definitely done, and most of the stars were out, and still the Horses thundered on and the children rose and sank in their saddles, miserable with thirst and weariness. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And that the stars were very far away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all slept out under the stars in the cattle camp—no bed, just a cowhide spread on bare soil. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On the sleeves it shows very plainly where the stars have been cut away. The cloth is a different color.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

My eyes were closed, but I was looking up, and I swore I could still see the stars through my eyelids. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The bright stars peered out of the sky, and lit the falling water as it spilled on to his fingers and head, and dripped, dripped, in hundreds of silver drops on to his feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“What you do think about bringing in your star player?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

To Vetch, watching, the light he bore seemed like a great slow star that moved through the darkness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were no stars in the sky, and as we walked, it seemed as if the darkness was getting thicker. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A policeman with a golden star upon his chest came to the door of the car, opened it, glanced at him briefly, then turned to the driver. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A gold star decorates the top right next to a large “A.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

An astronomer looked through his new telescope into the stars one morning and then refused to ever look to the heavens again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“CJ has good technique,” she says, her tongue stud flashing like a star in her mouth. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Soccer player, but not a star soccer player. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

One was on fire, and flapped lamely off by itself, billowing gigantically like a monstrous blood-red star. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was never the kind of girl who had crushes on rock stars or fantasies about marrying Brad Pitt. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning in 1864, Booth, the young stage star, had pledged his cash, his celebrity, and his connections in hatching a bold plan. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That star,” he says, pointing, “is Castor, that one Pollux. They’re the heads of the Twins.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

From the time Matt had moved into her apartment, he’d gone to sleep under a faintly shining canopy of stars. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’d wonder what the stars were and what kept them hanging up there so high and bright and if Papa, ’way off up yonder in Kansas, could see the same stars I could see. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Uranus it will plunge on past Neptune, leaving the solar system, becoming an interstellar spacecraft, fated to roam forever the great ocean between the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so proud, I felt like telling everyone around that that lady up on stage was my momma, but I also thanked my stars they didn’t sing that dang donut song. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They were huddled together like a circle of mushrooms after a rainstorm and hand sewing a big quilt with huge sunflower stars in the middle. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a handful of sparkling silver stars that she scatters across the velvet-covered table, reading them like runes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A set of computer investigations has examined the evolution of a flat, condensing disk of gas and dust of the sort that is thought to lead to stars and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had looked up and there they Were, standing like sentinels among the stars on their pillars. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the way he looked up to the stars, searching for a way to move forward from his past. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That constellation you call Eagle. What you call that star?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aragorn stood beneath his banner, silent and stern, as one lost in thought of things long past or far away; but his eyes gleamed like stars that shine the brighter as the night deepens. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

That night I wished on a star that someday my scrawny legs would fill out into that lovely shape and that the hair on them would be as long and straight and black. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Here he pointed to midsky and the stars outlining the jaguar ready to pounce. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Spider rappelled down from the ceiling into the light of the stars and moon that shone through his window. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the stone sill and looked out on dark towers, empty yards, black sky, and more stars than a man could ever count if he lived to be a hundred. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I remember pulling my hands back to my sides, just keeping my eyes on the stars, concentrating on bringing them in and out of focus. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

What did our ancestors believe the stars were? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And way far above them, above New York, and above the whole world, he made out a star that he knew was a star he used to look at back in Connecticut. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the bright little ball, moving majestically across the narrow star field between the ridgelines. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It worked when I used to sneak onto the roof to stare at the stars. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He hated the sign that rested above the door: a large silver badge with a smaller, blue star in the center. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Halfway around the world, in the American Southwest, there was then a high culture, rich in astronomical tradition, that also witnessed this brilliant new star.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the front door, a yellow star glares thick with wet paint. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Orange groves, failed movie stars, lamplit cocktail hours by the swimming pool, cigarettes, ennui. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They sparkled like the stars in the sky. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even like paper cuts, and shuddered to think of what it would feel like if one of the throwing stars nicked him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sky is full of stars, and I stare at it in awe for such a long time that everyone notices and laughs at me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marengo is having a Methodist church parking lot picnic, starring her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He introduces Cinna, who became an overnight star with his costumes for me in the Games, and after a minute of good-natured chitchat, we’re directed to turn our attention to a giant screen. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then some nearby stars will seem to move out of the constellation, others will enter it, and its configuration will alter dramatically. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes followed the shifting stars as they twinkled in the early morning sky. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We turn the music off, and suddenly we are back to being Franny and Suzy, just regular kids instead of rock stars. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We’d chosen blue and were stenciling white stars all over it. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

All they had ever known was that sraf came from the stars, as it had always done. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Boy, was Bring Back My Hammer right: this kid was gonna be a star. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

A twinkle pierces her eyes like stars peeping out of the night sky. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

For white dwarfs, the pressure of the electrons, stripped from their nuclei, holds the star up. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waved in the breeze, and flashes of sun winked from within, like stars inside a yellow sky. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Along this they went westward, with the city ever climbing up like a green cloud upon their left; and as the night deepened more lights sprang forth, until all the hill seemed afire with stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The extra gravitational attraction of such a large number of black holes could explain why our galaxy rotates at the rate it does: the mass of the visible stars is insufficient to account for this. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The zodiac is more like a diagram that has to do with stars and planets and whatnot,” said Reynie, trying to make it simple. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They would seize the oceans, the farthest stars, the deepest secret rivers in Hrothgar’s name! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, he’s the star of the Lake Windsor High School football team, but he doesn’t live in Lake Windsor. He lives in Tangerine.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the calamity could be postponed, at least for a while, if the sun was fortified for its battles with the stars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As Dante and I lay on our backs in the bed of my pickup and gazed out at the summer stars, I was free. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Tiny dim stars were blinking the night away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need the stars for this. Just focus. Even if you don’t want to.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe I tricked most of the kids into coming by dropping Link’s name, but he’s turned out to be the star of the meeting. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"You would not like it, up in the sky," the star assured him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, stars are born, stars evolve, and stars die. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Ted’s husband, Rory, is a graphic artist, and he wrote out my parents’ Jewish marriage contract in calligraphy, decorated with colorful flowers, vines, and stars. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The days were finally starting to get longer, but it was still dark, and the first stars had been out for a while. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s worth noting that even after the Southern states left to form the Confederacy, stars indicating their states were not removed from the Union flag. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The stars then exploded as supernovas, and their debris went to form other stars and planets, among them those of our Solar System, which is about five thousand million years old. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The antlers reach out, motionless, as still as the treelimbs overhead or the stars above the trees. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a quiet, sedate kind of place and he was a star there, a starter on the varsity football team as a freshman. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cuff links are purposefully mismatched, one a crescent moon and the other a star. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Odd dried plants and flowers hung from the ceiling, and the walls were covered with pictures of Inti and Mama Killa, as well as of the stars, the rainbow, and Illapa, the thunder god. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Kilvin likes you well enough. Why not hitch your star to his wagon?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sat alone and watched the stars and dreamed of Diego. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Now, what can you tell me about falling stars? What would be the meaning of a shower of them in the last hour of a night?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Donne would have learnt from Hill about the possibility of life on other planets, and of planets circling other stars; he would also have learnt that these strange ideas derived from Giordano Bruno. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I typically sneak a book inside and hide it under the table and pretend that no one can see me reading, but this time I can’t because I’ll be the star of this disaster. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Images appeared, including Georges Melies himself, as a young man, dressed in a fake white beard and a black cape covered with stars and moons. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The stars that outline the arms do not survive even a single galactic rotation; only the spiral pattern remains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The star shone out briefly and faded again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He would be the lone American in attendance this time, rubbing shoulders and debating the fine points of nuclear physics with the most glittering stars of European science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There are twelve elements named after people, and plenty of stars, comets and asteroids—but no planets or planetary moons. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Supreme thinks I have It. You know, that thing that makes stars stars.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Thirty-eight students were lost—including the school’s star running back and the girl voted Most Likely to Succeed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not a star, but I am the only white kid on our varsity basketball team. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julia and I sat close enough that we could hold hands as we watched all the stars that tumbled out of and into the black overhead. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The stars of the Milky Way move with systematic grace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In high school he’d been the consummate all-around athlete—a star in football, basketball, and track—and an honor student. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This would lead to the formation of galaxies, stars, and eventually even insignificant creatures like ourselves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he thought about all the things he was lucky to see, like stars, and model cars, and Shelly, he knew for a fact Grandpop couldn’t have meant that. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My admiration fizzles as stars burst before my eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Carter’s decked out in his Chumley Prep letter jacket—probably to remind everybody what a huge football star he is. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

One star glimmered, faintly, in the indigo heavens. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had compared himself with a star, and other people with falling leaves, and yet he had felt some reproach in her words. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time they were first predicted, there was no way that neutron stars could be observed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars shone through the window and the silence of the heavens seemed to be round him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t look down at the water, so he stared up at the sky, at all of those stars. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The same blood runs through us: the blood of the stars, the blood of the Goddess of Beauty. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Little Wood, tell me, are the stars out tonight?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

If astrophysics developed, the existence of stars could eventually be deduced from the principles of physics, but they would be theoretical constructs only. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That makes twelve gold stars hanging in Arlington’s windows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And thank your lucky stars you didn’t shoot anyone,” he added, and slapped the back of my head. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I felt a rush of adrenaline, because I recognized the red star symbol, and I knew where it was meant to lead me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"I ain't never seen all these stars up there. I mean, I seen a few, but not like this." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

A star came out above the trees in the darkening East before them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember anyone saying they were going to be a movie star or anything like that. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the stars had a particular brightness to them, like snowflakes on a black table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was a badge of some kind with a big star in the middle and letters circling all the way ’round the outside edge. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The United States had one flag design, the familiar Stars and Stripes, which changed only when additional stars were added to indicate that a new state had been accepted into the Union. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I have this dream that he has dark hair and luminous skin and stars in his eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even these might be sorted out and pieced together by an advanced civilization on a planet of a nearby star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then you looked up at Sahil, who was beaming at you like he was filled with a thousand stars or maybe like he was the moon. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was a dim glow pulsing from the middle of the hazel thicket, as if a tiny cloud of stars were glimmering there. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As she made her way past the temples, she could hear the acolytes of the Cult of Starry Wisdom atop their scrying tower, singing to the evening stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The star's lips moved, involuntarily, into a smile, and her eyes brightened. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Were there signs for each of the stars, and grains of sand on the beach? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The winding path speckled with stars seems endless as he feels his way through the dark turns, anxiously anticipating the brightness at the end. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles, only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or why they die. Sometimes I feel like our stories are all up there, in the stars, and if only I knew how to listen. I’d understand things more. You know?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a white ten-gallon hat and black cowboy boots decorated with swastikas and stars. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because I want to be a prima ballerina when I grow up, but because I intend on becoming a Broadway star someday. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The night had passed completely The morning star shone in the sky. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the plastic star that was still stuck on her thumb and then, without saying anything else, leaned down and stuck it on my forehead. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“The sky is clear. You can see the stars tonight.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The air darkened and among the clouds stars shone brightening. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

As always, he could smell the smoke from many fires, and he could see the hazy stars and feel the damp of the night air so that he covered his nose from it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like a fallen star trapped inside my pocket. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They met no great storms, and steered steadily enough by the compass and by the star Tolbegren, taking a course somewhat northward of their outbound way. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

That night drew to its end, but clouds were now over moon and star, and they knew of the coming of day only by the slow spreading of the thin grey light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The moon was almost blinding, so bright the stars were barely visible. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A star twinkled in the half-lit dome—the first of the year! Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I’m not going to be able to see the stars when I go back to Phoenix,” Nathan said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In addition to towering walls of books, there was a whole planetarium of stars and constellations projected on the ceiling. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In the open sky there were few stars. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Above us hung a glittering spray of stars that stretched all the way to Cuba. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Instead of blue skies, he saw black space spangled with stars, the palaces of Mount Olympus gleaming silver and gold in the background. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Watching a celebrity talk show on television, they listen for several minutes as a movie star with bright teeth recounts details of his recent divorce. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I search the sky above for early stars, see none, and then tell him what I remember. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faint call of a watchman could be heard down Seventh Street, and a few stars hung still in the sky. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Alickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of black holes, however, is almost certainly very much higher; in the long history of the universe, many stars must have burned all their nuclear fuel and have had to collapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the central star there may be a retinue of dead worlds, the remnants of planets once full of life and now airless and ocean-free, bathed in a wraithlike luminance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay in silence for the longest time, looking at the stars and listening to the soft murmurs of various conversations drifting across the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I thanked my stars for all the tinkering Ma did for the widow. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a cold azure and the stars were very bright. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I walk in the dark with the grillos for company and the sweep of stars overhead. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matt could name the planets, the brightest stars, and all the constellations. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peering out of her tent she saw that the star was gone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Messalla beams and says, “There’s our little star!” and the others are smiling so genuinely that I can’t help but smile in return. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Run and run and disappear into the mountains and live in solitude in the dark green of the wild, with a pine-needle carpet and a blanket of stars overhead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was another kind of object in the sky, the wandering or vagabond stars called planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one who dies, a red star smoldering out. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Suppose an intrepid astronaut on the surface of the collapsing star, collapsing inward with it, sent a signal every second, according to his watch, to his spaceship orbiting about the star. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But space is very empty, and the stars are far apart. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two stars were supposed to be theirs: the Gemini, the Twins. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep inside my chest, a main sequence star collapsed under its own gravity. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Later in the basketball season, Russ and I are sitting on my roof again, trying to look at stars, which is all we do anymore. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, standing on the shelf with flowers and leaves and birds and moons carved all around her, and the large star at the very top. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The central star has shed its outer atmosphere, producing a multicolored slowly expanding shell of glowing gas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She felt as though she had touched something that was not quite of this world, the highest point of the heavens, the farthest star. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the world from the stars’ point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The web locks us into place, staring at each other as the moon slithers across the sky and the stars fall asleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The bursting stars shone on their upturned faces. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The elf swayed slightly, stars reflected in his wide, shining eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was awake this time, looking up, out the window and at the smear of stars across the dark blue sky. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There was a half-moon and several million stars lighting the night as they never did at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The girl has freckles and hill lips like a movie star. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the language of the stars, and he spoke with them every night, waiting until they told him the time was right and true. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

First stars appeared in darkening skies still pale and the earth’s heat escaped upward. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A butterfly balloons to the size of a house then shatters into a million stars. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And she could remember climbing into her makeshift bed and clutching her hands to her heart, praying to the stars that she might have a night free from bad dreams. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Most captivating were the nights, “when the long shadows have all merged into one and the stars begin to gleam out over the lake and the domes of the palaces of the White City.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Immediately following behind it, another star fell from the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hideo’s eyes follow the path of the Gemini constellation, the stars that form the shape of twins. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Vonetta told how the tall, blond, white people took pictures of her like she was a movie star, which I could see Cecile didn’t like one bit. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A goose, which never slept inside, preferring instead to sit under the stars, honked gently as they entered the pen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But hydrogen fusion cannot continue forever: in the Sun or any other star, there is only so much hydrogen fuel in its hot interior. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By starring in all of my commercials this holiday season. TV. Radio. Print. Billboards. Cardboard cutouts in toy stores. His or her face will be everywhere.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She helped the star over to a long wooden table, at the head of which were laid a cleaver and a knife, both of them with hilts of bone and blades of dark glass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

All places on Earth are, to high precision, the same distance from any star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the black lump in my hand—this is a star?—and think there’s nothing I can imagine less interesting to draw on earth, but say, “Okay. Sure.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was also a nice drawing card for his practice since just about everyone knew he had been the star running back on a Permian team that went to the finals in 1970. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hyatt and every teacher after her always let Maria take charge of the green paper cutout candy canes and the purple-striped stars cut from wrapping paper. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He unearthed bones and arrowheads and beautiful clay pots; he tossed out lovely silver goblets and mammoth gold coins, and stones that sparkled, full of stars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Something about stars,” Pop says, and turns his attention back to the TV. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ending each day in the bed of the pickup, sleeping under the stars. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Viola rubs her shins and looks up into the stars coming out thru the hole that was the roof. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She watched the stars come out, one by one, until the sky was filled with a million points of light. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had taken off the stars, but that was for convenience. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The star sat on the cloud beside him, wearing the robe she had borrowed from the woman in the inn, with her broken leg stretched out on the thick mist in front of her. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ah, the clean shining window with cotton batting sprinkled with star dust for a carpet! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s supposedly the Link Rowley of the eighth grade, Mr. Popularity, basketball star. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Now there were three stars, but he was gone, and it was as though everything was somehow the same for the rest of them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Balls of light rise up high above it, silver and red spheres which explode and rain down in showers of red, white, and green stars. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sang: Bright star, still star, Lead me to the sea... Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about a star of honor from the U.N. and a stipend. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The air began to frost every night, and the stars to glitter more coldly, and so October came upon Phippsburg and Malaga Island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Nothing wrong with my vision. I can see clear up to the moon from the porch. I can see all the comings and goings and shooting stars.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The awesome power of the neutron star is lurking in the nucleus of every atom, hidden in every teacup and dormouse, every breath of air, every apple pie. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond, the low lands lay dim and flat under the stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The night air was so clear that when I looked up, the stars seemed to form a glowing blue-white bridge that arched from mountain to mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At nightfall they built fires with pieces of old shoes to keep the mosquitoes away, and watched the stars from beneath the big oak tree where they’d hung a rope to swing from. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The sky was a black curtain; the stars, ice chips whittled by an old knife. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olbers’s counterargument was that the light from distant stars would be dimmed by absorption by intervening matter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to fold the paper in thirds, the way I would a normal letter, but instead decide to crease the paper into the complicated star pattern that Mirjam's letter to Amalia was folded into. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The stars look so huge and so close. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I give unto you the most important and transcendent star, the Morning Star, for you are a proud and powerful people. It is the star for counting the years — the years of manhood.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I attended one meeting and drew an incredibly awesome spaceship cruising through the stars. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“They are using the stars to pinpoint the destination,” Seed Collector said, to the right of Pond. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Cobb would recognize the star and wave him across with a smile? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, Bertha looked dreamily over at Gus like he was a movie star and not some scraggly haired man who worked in a mattress factory over in Cooperville. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It looks like I could grab planets and stars as easily as picking leaves off a tree. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of paper birds and paper stars and paper skies. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And then I’ll dream I float up to the stars and hear them whispering to each other. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

As explained above, an early generation of stars first had to form. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

How to explain the appearance of a new star in the heavens? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She shone as bright as the stars on a moonless night. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, the story goes on with these stars of the old war shield; they go on, lasting until the fifth world ends, then maybe beyond. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hagrid’s huge, hairy face was swimming above Harry, blocking out the stars. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In a few years he became the brightest new star on the tennis scene. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in a manner that was as close to a movie star as anyone would ever see. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When we stood next to each other in the school yard that morning, our stars and stripes echoed the flag waving from the pole above us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We are not small people. We are stars.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with pictures Celia had torn out of magazines: movie stars, animals, babies—Matt wasn’t thrilled by the babies, but Celia found them irresistible—flowers, news stories. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to look at the stars on the still and quiet mornings and listen for the howl of the coyotes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the behavior section, Fred wrote “spy-hopping” and drew a trio of stars in the left margin that caught my eye. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever song was stuck in her head was upbeat, chipper, and, for a moment, I really did think the stars had aligned for me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Everything under the sun came full circle—the seasons, the stars, the cycles of life itself. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He looked up and saw with surprise that faint stars were appearing overhead amid the strands of hurrying cloud and fog. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like the Sun and the Moon, stars always rise in the east and set in the west, taking the whole night to cross the sky if they pass overhead. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their deeds would bring peace to an unstable world, preserved in legend among the stars. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A few stars shone, and their reflections shook and broke up, silver scintillating in the black water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hit him for being so cheerful and acting like I’m a star patient when I’m really just an angry, pathetic whiner. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The star nodded, and, awkwardly, resting her weight on him, she began to try to pull herself to her feet. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

You can see the tall pines standing like an army of zombies along the shore, with stars for eyes and the wind moving their ragged arms, but they can’t find you. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear and the stars were growing bright. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sky outside was darker by then, with only a few pale green ghosts dancing against the stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sky above them was dappled with more stars than he could count, a thousand diamonds dropped into an inkpot. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Blimps crisscross above me and block the stars with their plump forms and silhouette banners. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The father, silent and motionless, sat on the mat, and the stars passed across the sky. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never the flaming eye of Helios lights on those men at morning, when he climbs the sky of stars, nor in descending earthward out of heaven; ruinous night being rove over those wretches. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan stared at the ground, then the stars, anywhere but at Pond’s disappointed eyes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Several such passages are starred and highlighted in the dog-eared text, the margins filled with cryptic notes printed in McCandless s distinc-tive hand. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was evening, and the stars were glimmering in the eastern sky as they passed the ruined oak and turned and went on down the hill between the hazel-thickets. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They brought in celebrities to sing and dance and star in comedy sketches that taught children about the virtues of cooperation or about their own emotions. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cracked my knuckles, then flew forward into the gate, and my avatar vanished into the whirlpool of stars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I slid my false armband—now inked with a neat Jewish star—up and over my bulging sleeve and darted into the ghetto like a bird. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was pretty surprised to hear that Tommy was my star pupil. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Under the stars, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The other was two box tops from corn flakes. They send you twenty-five cents if you mail them two box tops with stars on the tops. For milk money, it said.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the boy simply blinked, then looked back down at the sea star and tugged again, harder. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

While the treasure stayed safely under the sea, I stayed with Osh and Miss Maggie on the Elizabeths and learned how the stars changed with the seasons, and how we did, too. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sky above had cleared again and was slowly filled with twinkling stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This one depicted a naked man cowering in front of the star, both his hands raised in fear. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were good people on this benighted world, the star decided, warmed and contented. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

By day, the sun barely peeked through the smoky haze, and at night the stars and moon remained invisible. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They could open a new exhibit, starring me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes like tight stars so that I wouldn’t, but I did. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I watch as Director Horus reaches up to pluck a star right out of the sky. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He remembered that Colonel Gerineldo Márquez had once promised to get him a horse with a white star on its face and that he had never spoken about it again. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until she met and started working for Attorney Jeremy Fitzgerald that she imagined she could become the star. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy ran across the clearing and burst through the door of Poppy Cottage, Shilling galloping beside her like a shooting star. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The moon would be a great place to observe the stars because there is no atmosphere to get in the way and block the view. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fog, cloud cover, blizzard conditions, rain, and foul weather of every description often hid the sun and stars from Worsley’s sight. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They went all the way up to a sky-blue ceiling with tiny lights in it, hanging there like stars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I hit the floor of the boat hard enough to see stars, except they looked more like bits of electric static. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, just as the sun sank and the first of the stars began to glimmer above them, they saw the fires of the chief’s village. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“My stars, I thought y’all were hungry and wanted to survive.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He'd like to have been in with that film star crowd. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A guy from M*A*S*H was the star of the movie. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The absence of detectable stellar parallax as the Earth moved suggested that the stars were much farther away than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben’s the star and you aren’t nothing but a bunch of nasty freckles.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Devon, muffled under the gentle occupation of the snow, was dominated by them; the cold Yankee stars ruled this night. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the real star of the evening is the food. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a courtyard behind them, open to the sky, and stars hung in the night sky above. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I drank beer and looked up at all the stars. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We went that day till the stars came out. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He explains that while we might know that Jews were forced to wear yellow stars, we may not know that homosexuals were forced to wear triangles. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was watching the first stars emerge in the gray sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the din of confusion in her head, Inej thought, They look like stolen stars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Upon their western sides the grass was white as with a drifted snow: small flowers sprang there like countless stars amid the turf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Dust pouring down from the stars had found a living home again, and these children-no-longer-children, saturated with love, were the cause of it all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And him asking if she wanted another star, and her saying yes but in a different color. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Louie found that the only way to train was to circle the first-class deck, weaving among deck chairs, reclining movie stars, and other athletes. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We know N., the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, fairly well, by careful counts of stars in small but representative regions of the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loopy and lopsided stars that look like I did them. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But you see more stars through a telescope. Where do they come from? Jumping Jupiter, where do they come from?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Just before midnight, his vigilance was rewarded when he suddenly noticed a few stars overhead and shouted to the others to look. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The South Seas and the Grand Canyon. The planets and the stars.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Certain stars rise just before or set just after the Sun—and at times and positions that vary with the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up, hoping to see the stars, but there must be clouds because the sky is as black as the sea. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the east had just begun to lighten, and the stars of morning still hung in a pitch-black sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like a little girl with stars in my eyes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

For the Aristotelian philosophy of nature could not be adapted to incorporate this peculiar anomaly; if there could be such a thing as a new star, then the whole system was founded on false premises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It depends on which of the constellations they passed through and in which direction the stars fell,” I say. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He believed in a Purpose as surely as he believed that the stars above him were really there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this photograph there are about a million stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slipping off the last petal of the last flower, my hand sinks, fingers dragging through the background of stars, each pinpoint of light that Abby drew a separate attempt to capture infinity. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was night, cloudless but with a marine layer of haze that dampened even any light from the stars. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In that case the absorbing matter might not have heated up yet or the light from distant stars might not yet have reached us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined him dropping like a dark star out of the sky that he had made. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were rowing as if on another plane, as if in a black void among the stars, just as Pocock had said they might. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As the sensitivity of the neutrino telescope improves, it may become possible to probe nuclear fusion in the deep interiors of the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the overturned enamel tray, a star of thermometer shards glittered, and balls of mercury trembled like celestial dew. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I remember how Jude gave up the sun and stars and oceans for my drawing of him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The night rages on in one continuous loop of laughter and dancing and questions and excitement until I'm brought to the Belle apartments right after the midnight star rises. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"We did not see a lot of future Broadway stars," he acknowledges. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The first big televised event was my trial, in which he was also a star witness. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They took sparks from Muspelheim and placed them in the sky as the sun, moon, and stars. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beacon Fire,” Yishan whispered, watching the shooting star with surprising intensity. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But Riverbank had room for only one star—and that was George Fabyan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Of course, after dinner Edward did not go outside and stand beneath the stars to have a smoke with Lawrence. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t even have to be an important or hard word, like amnesty or communism, but something easy, like salt or butter or sky or star. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I read a line and tried to understand it: “from what we cannot hold the stars are made.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a tent, we just lay under the stars, nestled inside the Millers’ fluffy sleeping bags, serenaded by frogs, the fire we’d cooked the dogs on dying out by our feet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

One moment the moon was not there, and then it was, then one bright star. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Inside a hundred dim red candles burned like distant stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Was there another star bright enough tonight—that the moon would pass over? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eddington thought it was simply not possible that a star could collapse to a point. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it walked to the star, and it knelt down at her feet. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

High above the buildings’ black silhouette stars shone in a clear sky. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This difference in the forces would stretch our astronaut out like spaghetti or tear him apart before the star had contracted to the critical radius at which the event horizon formed! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When darkness had fallen over everything, and the stars burned bright in a moonless sky, they went to sleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon and the stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

We just lay there and looked up at the stars. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But the beauty of the star women was more than he could resist. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure I finally figured out what was so bad about having a famous TV star for a best friend. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

If tracks wanted the attendance, revenue, and exposure that a super- star like Seabiscuit brought, they had to obey Howard’s wishes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we look around us in our little corner of the Milky Way, we see many stars surrounded by spherical shells of glowing gas, the planetary nebulae. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Genie had just finished jotting down his star question when he heard Grandma’s car pull into the yard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I mean, compared to some of the real creeps in school—the ones who cling to Jenny Flick as if she’s some sort of rock star because she gives out—James is an angel. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Only the brightest stars were visible, all to the west. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ralph marvelled as the stars came out; the car moved so fast, yet they stayed so still. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I did not come here to make you sad, Vicky. I did not find you your star to make you miserable." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The stars up there are putting on a show just for you, kid,” he’d say. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

White’s desperate search for a witness soon led him to Henry Grammer, the rodeo star and gunslinging bootlegger who, every year or so, seemed to draw down on another man because of a dispute. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The finished ones each had a small, silver crescent moon and three mini gold stars. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“How many stars in the sky?” he repeats, cracking open an eye to stare at the ceiling like he’s imagining the night sky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know our names anymore, but we still had our Jewish stars on our uniforms, ragged and torn though they were, and we were all in the Jewish car. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The core of a neutron star is so dense that a single spoonful of matter from it would weigh 200 billion pounds. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Such beings may pity us for our handful of naked-eye stars, because their skies will be ablaze with them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laid them out on a platter in a star design. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The merry flight of the bats around the steeple of First Congregational stilled, the blurred stars began to come out, and the first owl call sounded, low and sonorous. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Archer took a seat opposite her, where he could watch the porter, though there was nothing threatening about the man who hung up the lantern—just a silhouette against the starred sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“That star inside you. Nothing can change that. Don’t forget, King Promise me.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He blew a stream of smoke at the stars. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Mama looked up, addressing those very stars Dedd had already discounted. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its billions of particles were like the stars of every galaxy in the sky, and every one of them was a little fragment of conscious thought. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The stars curved out of the dusk into the night. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Wright’s academic star rose, so too did Sullivan’s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were wearing large, red, luminous stars on their hats, all except Hagrid, who had his on the back of his moleskin vest. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I bet they had matching floral bedspreads with heart-shaped throw pillows and pictures of rock stars taped on their headboards. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

My star vanished as I drew near: some obstacle had intervened between me and it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We thank you for your stars that watch over us as we sail this cold black sea. ” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I paid the price, my star, but it was too high, too high . A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, Grandma, I thought, that is the same moon and the same stars that will be over your grape arbor and your henhouse tomorrow. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aristarchus suspected the stars to be distant suns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hunter's Moon waxed round in the night sky, and put to flight all the lesser stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The last light of day was gone by then; the only light came from the stars above and the faint red glow of the dying fire in the center of the grove. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The few black people at the tournament, much to my surprise, mingled freely with whites, as the two groups walked about the courts, eagerly seeking autographs from the tennis stars. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elsbeth’s bedroom is where I spent so many afternoons: practicing dances, pretending to do homework, ranking our favorite film stars. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And stars are the places where the molecules that life is made of were constructed billions of years ago. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

These people paid close attention to the Sun and the Moon and the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The living cell is a regime as complex and beautiful as the realm of the galaxies and the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flip through it to see that someone—Gram, probably—has underlined certain phrases and words and starred some of the poems. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Candlelight spilled from only a few windows, and the stars were faint and distant, as far away as hope or the dawn. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

A star never before seen became brighter than any star in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make him a star on your stupid show.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It is also too large a mass to be a neutron star. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars shone as bright and cold and hard as diamonds. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy believed not only that behavior patterns were influenced by the planets and the stars but also that questions of stature, complexion, national character and even congenital physical abnormalities were determined by the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What we see at night is the merest smattering of the nearest stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His knobbed fingers fluttered among the stars and secret signs of his gown, but he would not help the speaker. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first group were the stars, the students with the potential to become world-class soloists. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As if, for one powerful, engulfing moment, they were the same person, giving and receiving, as the stars faded into the predawn sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mixed with the spin of holographic stars, glimpses of pale faces with red-tonic-lined lips wash by like anemic vampires. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough. Mychel says I have the eyes of the owl." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The day faded and now the sun is sleeping and the stars are awake and dancing above us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I find her at her computer where she’s supposed to be writing a book but instead is staring up at the ceiling like it’s full of stars. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The legacy of Aristarchus has been extended far beyond the realm of the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to lie on the garage roof and stare up at the few stars I can see,” I say. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we finally made it just about the time it got dark enough for the stars to show. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aristarchus proposed a universe with the sun at its center and the stars set in a sphere that was unimaginably distant. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He said little, but carried the star into the inn and put her down on a three-legged stool in front of a crackling log fire. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

"If you wish to see the star, Miss Forester..." said Tristran, but Victoria shook her head. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that, with respect to the stars, Venus turns once every 243 Earth days, but backward, in the opposite direction from all other planets in the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are only two other people in the room: a boy with full lips and heavy-lidded eyes, and another boy, handsome with wavy hair, who looks like the American film star William Holden. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She looked even more intimidating up close, like a sea of black fabric and twinkling stars. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t go far, just around the perimeter of the neat yard in a slow shuffle, watching the sky, clear now, a billion stars spread across it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Above us, the night sky gleams like polished glass, its wealth of stars reflected in the oddly still surface of the water. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They were the rainy stars, supposed to bring rain because the time of their evening and morning setting, which comes in early May and November, is usually rainy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a little girl, my entire notion of love was to marry the soccer star. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then, afraid for the star, he got back to his feet and walked, as fast as he could manage, along the forest path. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because no one would dare sideline the all-American star football and baseball player. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The stars are bright tonight, a thousand sparkling jewels sewn into a dress only fit for a goddess. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe my inspiration comes from a hundred stars—a hundred suns—all reminding me that I’m not alone. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After a drawn-out series of death throes—the precise sequence of events depends, again, on the mass of the star—the star’s fusion engine fails, and the star begins to collapse under its own gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Consequently, many of the stars today have Arabic names, which I think are mysterious and beautiful. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few more s’mores, we lie next to each other on the blanket, holding hands, gazing up beyond the fluttering leaves into the canopy of stars. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I find a star ahead of us, as the clouds shift, but it seems to be the only one. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The only way to see the stars was to block out the sunshine and allow the pupils to expand for several minutes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river, now small and swift, was leaping merrily down to meet them, glinting here and there in the light of the stars, which were already shining in the sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The other one was red with four small stars in a semicircle to the right of a big star. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lyons had been a famous football star at Mason High School, was highly thought of in Mason, and consequently he now worked around that town in menial jobs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is why they made no effort to prepare the child for life, since the stars had already conspired to endow her with so many gifts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate ice cream, drank milk, talked with football star Jimmy Brown and other friends, and some reporters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That there is Pegasus,” he said, pointing to a cluster of stars hovering way up over the top of the mountains in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Nali pointed to the stars above and called certain clusters by their Navajo names, while Nathan’s fire consumed the last bits of wood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Soojin gets four stars on every song when she and I play together, but she’s been studying ballet, tap, and jazz since she was six. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Before we left the relative safety of earth orbit, we wanted to make sure that our navigational equipment was working properly, and that meant using our sextant to sight on two stars. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-earth and Over-heaven and of the Sundering Seas,’ laughed Pippin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She travelled into the stratosphere on an exhibition trip, where the sky turned deep purple and the stars came out and the misty earth below looked like a huge concave bowl. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

That year, the conversation about boys had turned from hypothetical dreams of rappers and movie stars to realities of neighbors and classmates. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He named them correctly and he named the stars who played in them. 4TH JUROR: Yes, his lawyer took great pains to bring that out. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It floated there, as big as an orange, dimming the stars but lighting the earth. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Carved stars decorated the uppermost stones, and soot blackened the hearth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I cleared away the episodes of Riptide and Misfits of Science I’d programmed and dropped in a few back-to-back flicks starring Gamera, my favorite giant flying turtle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The stars were fuzzy beyond the cigar smoke. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun, burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a prisoner was released, the prison crossed out their mark with a line and added a little star symbol. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She pinned it to Petra’s hair like an old-fashioned movie star. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Our waiter, who tells us his name is Cornelius, acts like we are movie stars or something. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

As I pulled up a scan of 2112’s original fold-out album sleeve, I saw that there was a second image of the red star symbol on the inside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The perfect question. In the beginning, that’s where they come in. They supplied the ingredients that became us, the primordial elements. We are star stuff, yes?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When the source emits the next wave crest it will be nearer to us, so the distance between wave crests will be smaller than when the star was stationary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1795 a selection of bones made their way to Paris, where they were examined by the rising star of paleontology, the youthful and aristocratic Georges Cuvier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

For the month or so that they are visible, all that distinguishes them from the other stars in the sky is that they occupy a point of space that wasn’t filled before. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They promise you cash, and spin it so good you get stars in your eyes. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Leo slept outside on a bed of drop cloths under the stars. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, you said their horns got stuck in the sky, and they just turned into stars—but how?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You mean like those guys who NetChat you and pretend they’re a hot German pop star named Hans but who turn out to be some old fat guy in a house in Kansas?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He has a shiny star pinned to his chest. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“You have to see fresh patterns in the stars. Patterns, Saturns, Saturday, Sunday, sundial. It’s all about measuring the passing day. Do you get it?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The stars had come out over the silent courtyard, revealing the rubbish-strewn pavement and peeling walls in all their ugly reality. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But the kitchen light sparked flecks of fool's gold stars, and out of the waves burst hand-painted shells, white and pink, the kind my mother loved. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was characteristic of Riefenstahl that even as she starred in a succession of similar films her ambitions continued to mount. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She took one look and said, “Oh, my stars!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And close behind came the young lord himself, a dashing figure on a black courser, with red- gold hair and a black satin cloak dusted with stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was nothing they could do but stand there like fools and watch her shape get smaller in the sky—a distant moon, a fading star, then gone. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I imagined the clouds and stars up above. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And so, thought Siddhartha, I enter this town under a lucky star. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under these stars and sky I used to hear stories, but now it seemed as if it was the sky that was telling us a story as its stars fell, violently colliding with each other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The deserts and empty seas swung by him, and the mountains against the stars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It is a different sensation than watching the stars while lying in a field, something Bailey has done many times. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“What do you think the stars mean?” she asked, babbling in her discomfort. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When she finished she lifted up her chin and half-closed her eyes like a movie star. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One day, she showed us a video in which a scientist described what he called “the most astounding fact,” which was that all living things are composed of the atoms of collapsed stars. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It’s good at first to be out in the night, naked to the cold mechanics of the stars. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he led George over to the boulder, where they sat together under the stars. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

So how can we tell different types of stars apart? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned, and when it turned, the whole circle turned inside, and the images that showed through the little holes changed: rainbows into stars, blimps into planes, flowers into dragonflies. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was asleep, his duty done, his bowels empty, one tusk resting on the earth, the other pointed to the stars. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Jew had to wear a white armband with a blue star. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Most stars in the sky are members of double or multiple star systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shot out of the mountain like a bottle rocket aimed at the stars. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She took my water and saluted the stars. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yellow part seemed to be getting wider, spreading out at the center of the star. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless, of course, the star of the show made certain demands. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A star drifts over her face, the veins beneath her skin glowing blue as it passes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His face was bright, his eyes round and bright as two stars. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is from this singularity that all the matter and energy in the universe spewed forth, creating all the galaxies, stars, and planets that have ever—and will ever—exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I felt like a seafarer who has located the northern star and set his course from that shining point. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

To distract her, Mariam arranged grains of rice on the floor, in the shape of a house or a rooster or a star, and let Aziza scatter them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

After green garlic gnocchi with red mustard leaves, the waiter said, “Dessert next. More stars first?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The air was cool, and he could smell the dampness that came out with the stars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Where moonlight can be counted on if the sky is clear and stars no matter what. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This explains why there are no parts of the body named after Hippocrates or Galen, no stars named after Ptolemy, no creatures named after Aristotle or Pliny. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This is why, on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, my bed is littered with all sorts of craft project supplies: felt, glitter, glue, scissors, hole punch, sequins, and stars. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“And,” Hubert continued, “for the dimwit in the audience, an asterism is a prominent pattern or group of stars.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

If you sit on a moving Earth, why don’t you see the stars move? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The stars called to her like signal beacons burning on a vast black sea as she flung herself a hundredfold into the dizzy air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The moon had gone down, and only a few stars still blinked in the west. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He began to paint, while behind him the stars glittered for all they were worth—which was considerable—and every single one of them held its place in this night’s sky without falling. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wished I knew how to make Diego believe me; I wished the aliens had abducted him, too, so we could have watched the stars together. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"Because..." said the star, and then she stopped. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Brahmin was silent so long that the stars passed across the small window and changed their design before the silence in the room was finally broken. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Multicolored tattoos—of eight-pointed stars, lush-leafed vines, a hammer and anvil, a bird, a woman's eyes, scales—run from his wrists up his arms and into a black leather jerkin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Andromeda was not a cloud of glowing gas; it was a cloud of stars so distant that they looked like a smear rather than individual points of light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the tangle of balled-up socks and dust and ratty magazines sat the Converse shoe box—the glimmer of red star on the lid, the march of thick blue letters along the side. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was a poet, or a college president, or a movie star; he drank expensive whisky, and he smoked Lucky Strike cigarettes in the green package. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Bad seeing is produced by small-scale turbulence in the atmosphere above the telescope and is the reason the stars twinkle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chandrasekhar showed that a collapsing star that has about 1.4 times the mass of our sun will have enough gravity to overwhelm the Pauli exclusion principle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Poet was a star, with skills as good as any cinema actor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

These stars shine for ten million years or so, a period corresponding to only 5 percent of a galactic rotation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lie on them, stare at the stars, and talk about everything. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Watching it rise, I performed a mental ritual: Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star; One of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

See, the cool thing about Jessica’s story is that so much of it happens in one spot, making life much easier for those of you following the stars. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I watched from the high cliff wall, where I could look out and see all the meadhall lights on the various hills across the countryside, glowing like candles, reflected stars. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I played for both of them, while overhead the stars continued in their measured turning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her mom then produced a hot pink hat with purple stars embroidered on it and sparkly silver strands in the puff on top, and hot pink mittens to match. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The road to the stars was a rough one, and the Apollo team needed no reminder of the risk. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some astronomers now think that a series of similar conjunctions at the time of the birth of Jesus may have been the phenomenon known as the ‘star of Bethlehem’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the stars, through the top branches of the willows. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“According to the stars, you two are quite the pair.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There were huge boxes attached to the windows, which contained make-believe stars and spacecraft, so that when we looked out the windows we would see what we would see in flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I lost the stars and the oceans too,” I tell him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Libby moves away and looks at the stars, probably horrified that she was about to kiss me and got interrupted. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And even if every star managed to lose enough mass to avoid collapse, what would happen if you added more mass to a white dwarf or neutron star to take it over the limit? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She herself shot upwards through the sky, with the stars spinning around her like great golden plates, and presently, in blinding light, she felt the cold rays of the moon upon her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are heavy-lidded and boldly lined on the top lids, in the manner of 1960s movie stars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above them a few stars still glimmered faintly; but on either side there arose walls of impenetrable gloom; they were in a narrow lane between moving towers of shadow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know him, lady. His speech stops only when the stars shine green in a yellow sky.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The heat released in this reaction, which is like a controlled hydrogen bomb explosion, is what makes the star shine. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

More stars than I ever remember seeing, and I've spent a lot of time at night with my head tilted back analyzing the constellations. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There was no sea and no sand, no grass nor rocks, no soil, no trees, no sky, no stars. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I look up at the stars hanging low in a sky that makes me think I’m seeing the infinite. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Angel and Kiara giggled in the backseat about boys and makeup and movie stars. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great football, track, and baseball star, Sam Ransom, traveled all the way from Minneapolis to sign up with the Eighth, and a track star, Binga Dismond, left his medical school studies to enlist. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The moon and stars looked down upon their struggle, their pale light filtered through the tangle of bare limbs that twisted overhead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She undid his braid with anxious fingers, as she had on the night he'd taken her for the first time, beneath the stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That you stand in a position that many have stood in before, under already fading stars and sparkling lights. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Barry searched the sky and picked out one of the very brightest stars. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine the beams gone, the roof pulled away, only the endless night sky above me, full of stars. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down beside Rose’s St. Nick Houses there were all these little stars. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was strange for a child of Aphrodite, but she’d watched her dad, the movie star, deal with fame for years. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The fate of a star, the end of its life cycle, depends very much on its initial mass. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fog had lifted and there were stars glittering above the high-walled courtyard. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

On other nights it was still, with such a stillness as one imagines as existing before the stars began to form, or after everything has perished. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the sky, but no star fell. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are bottles too, made of glass beautiful enough to rival stars I Cannot see above me because the citysky has hidden them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stand on opposite sides of a small, round room painted a rich blue and dotted with stars, on a ledge around a pool of jewel-toned cushions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Systems are commonly double, two stars orbiting one another. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the stars like he was trying to calculate his position. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My older brother was a star student in elementary school. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For all their pre-eminence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, composers from Austria and Germany would soon be competing for attention with a kaleidoscope of musical stars from elsewhere, notably Russia, France and the USA. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He flopped onto his back, stared up at the branches and the stars above.There wasn’t even the slightest hint of dawn creeping into the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As the sky turns black, the clouds rush in to hide all the stars. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, such regions would stop expanding and collapse to form galaxies, stars, and beings like us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

David always wore a dazzling smile, which transformed him from a nice-looking guy into a movie star. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As more and more stars roused themselves, he rowed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe in stuff like that. Fate. The stars. Destiny.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And the last straw—everyone seemed to agree—was the Sun Valley game, when Stargirl rushed across the court to aid Kovac, the Sun Valley star. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t a handsome model type, but he was really cute, with a smile that made him more attractive than any movie star. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was foggy and cold out and still so dark you could see the stars and a sliver of the moon, but soon, the sun would rise over the Boggy Crone River. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

At this, Constance’s pudgy, rosy cheeks grew redder still, so that her wispy blond hair seemed almost white in contrast, and her pale blue eyes shone bright as stars. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Fame and glory! The winner will become my new spokesperson and will star in all of my holiday promotions.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

To my relief, no revolutionary red star appeared on the moon’s yellow surface. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Astronomy is what the Greek mind finally made out of the stars. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to remember just how bright a star is many hours after you look at it, but Huygens remembered very well. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The star of the show was definitely Cap. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And, as she passed through the trees, it might have appeared to a distant observer that she seemed to twinkle, on and off and off and on, like a tiny star. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

To his right there loomed against the westward stars a dark black shape. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This was the view of most scientists: Einstein himself wrote a paper in which he claimed that stars would not shrink to zero size. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the wide expanse of stars normally visible in the unpolluted winter sky was hidden behind rain clouds on that gloomy day. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And this year, I am one of the stars of the show. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no moon in the sky, but the stars make enough light to see by, just barely. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They stared at each other, both of them shocked into silence, as the sea star and its leg fell from Loo’s small hands. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her star had begun to ascend at last. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Wells envisioned the Martians setting their sights on their nearest neighbor, Earth, “a morning star of hope.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He remembered the night in the desert when he had sat with the alchemist, as they looked at the stars and drank wine together. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Different stars have different spectra, but the relative brightness of the different colors is always exactly what one would expect to find in the light emitted by an object that is glowing red hot. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was too excited to concentrate fully, but she did grasp that the lopsided pasteboard star was one that Chadwell had made in the third grade. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The only place we could be alone was outside under the sun or the stars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you’re spending Friday night gaming and nursing the hand you broke while trying to sucker punch somebody. No wonder Jase Worthington has chosen to hitch his star to your wagon.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sure, hearts were an ordinary doodle and easier to draw than even stars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through the low buildings, chips of stars glitter in a velvet sky. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I carefully touched the star and felt the five gold points. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Here you go," he said, passing the star the other end of the chain that had bound her. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I see myself lying on the bed of the pickup truck, staring up at all the stars. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I leafed past pages of TV stars, rock-and-roll groups, and pop idols. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I just finished Perseus. That there is Algol—the demon star. This here is pretend outer space—or fantasy outer space—so we’re not really interested in arranging the constellations the way they usually appear.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one hour and a half, I was the glittering morning star I knew I could be. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked up at the stars still glimmering palely in the dark sky and listened to the sea washing backward and forward against the cliff: He was going to miss the sound. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Like he wished on enough stars that his dreams are coming true. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She could see the stars, sharp and bright, and the half-moon glowed in the east. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look down at the first red star. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

"You know," she said, "a star and a mortal man..." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The second brightest star in the constellation Andromeda, called Beta Andromedae, is seventy-five light-years away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the stars would gradually reappear, but were gone in a flash if the eye was exposed to sunshine, either directly or bouncing off some part of the spacecraft. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras argued that the earth sat at the center of the universe, and the sun, moon, planets, and stars revolved around the earth, each pinned inside a sphere. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

What we do with our world in this time will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully determine the destiny of our descendants and their fate, if any, among the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever they went and wherever they slept, the east wind whistled in the reeds, and the geese went over high in the starlight, honking at the stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing he failed to see was that if a neutron star shrank enough it would become so dense that even light couldn’t escape its immense gravitational pull. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“No Earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky: only the mist world...” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For this mechanism to work, the unseen object has to be very small, like a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he wasn’t a star, Reggie was a good enough athlete to develop his own modest reputation in the sports-crazed community. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If some Crown hadn’t killed my dad, he’d be a big rap star and money wouldn’t be an issue. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

How she went to see Henry V at the RSC and Arthur was starring, how she pushed her way backstage and shook off her security to disappear into London with him and dance all night. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sky was a deep, clear blue now, and the first stars were starting to appear. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“There is another destination. Look at me! Remember my face. When you’re ready, come find me. We’ll take you to the mortal world with us. You can see the sunlight and stars.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If she turned her body the other way she might see stars some nights. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As if dropped from the stars, a third man had materialized under the dock lights—and he was pounding Luno into a sweaty lump of Jell-O. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the star and stared into her eyes for several heartbeats. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I was four, Mama was the moon and the stars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Thanking their lucky stars that what happened to Anatole hadn’t happened to them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, the morning star appeared in the gray sky. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

To which he and the stars were common satellite. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The winged girl, the circlet in her hair glittering like a star, rested her fingers for a moment on the back of Coraline’s hand. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dixit’s hands were painted with henna, an intricate pattern of zigzags and stars. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The stars in this world were the same as theirs: the Milky Way blazed bright across the dome of the sky, and innumerable points of starlight dusted the dark, almost matching the moon for brightness…. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made pinwheels of the whirling stars that had driven many a man mad. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I did not like to speak in class like I did back home, when I was the confident star student. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The massive star winds up being a gigantic ball of neutrons: a neutron star. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was flying once again, spinning, laughing, dancing, as the stars wheeled around her and whispered secrets in her ear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the stars made themselves visible, Milkman tried to figure what was true and what part of what was true had anything to do with him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Their attention was turned to the stars, the galaxies." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It said that the stars were suns, only very far away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just some dumb stuff about if I was going to be a star in the big leagues some day.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Paqo pointed low in the black cloth of the night sky, and there, in the pattern of the stars, were the ground animals. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Here and there a misty star peered out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Most powerful kid in the legion. You were the star.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the time their bellies were full, the stars had come out and a half-moon was rising over the mountains. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Were those really the same stars that had burned so brightly above the black ocean that night? I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The stars instantly appeared in the black sky, reflecting their light on a quiet ocean. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Only it’s too bad because Mr. Neely noticed, and we were no longer his star pupils. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were staring upward, as though searching for her favorite stars in the sky, and tears were rolling down her cheeks. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For each star there was a night and a place; this was the last night and the last place, when the darkness of night and the light of day were balanced. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We lay on the wooden walkway and looked at the stars. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And a lone voice of encouragement: the middle school teacher who gave him a gold star. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Because she looks like some kind of movie star. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the stars came out above the two, and swung in the heavens. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When, as happened infrequently, they encountered other people, the star did her best to stay out of sight. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Go on with you, boy. Go, and bring back your star, and may God and all His angels go with you." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like a movie star or a genuine country music singer, not the Momma I’d last seen nearly six months ago. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Meggot, who was a little taller and a little thinner than Yvaine, had lent her several gowns, which the star wore with relief, taking pleasure in wearing something new on different days. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look to where the window is, hoping to see either sky or stars, but the window’s covered by a sheet of metal. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the patterns of the constellations to change, we must travel over distances comparable to those that separate the stars; we must venture across the light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night she found them written out in stars in the clear cold sky. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should have known better, the stars have been doing that lately, making no sense and giving me headaches. I should probably stop trying for a while.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I stroll back to the apartment under a sky thick with stars, and when I tell Helena the news, she jumps up and down. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How far would we have to be from the Sun for it to appear as small and as dim as a star? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one of his favorite theatrical fantasies, his stage name was Perry O’Parsons, a star who billed himself as “The One-Man Symphony.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the knee was wrecked, there went the team’s star before a single down had even been played. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The collapse of a star to form a black hole is rather like the later stages of the collapse of the whole universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It soared high, a red shooting star illuminating an endless snow-filled sky. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually the Second helped him get all five throwing stars zipping in circles overhead, their strange dark shapes flitting like bats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He allowed it was jest a little old star chasin’ ’round the sun with a pack of others, some of’em a lot bigger than us. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no moon, and the stars looked sparse and adrift in the punished sky. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is it to be admitted to a museum, to see a myriad of particular things, compared with being shown some star's surface, some hard matter in its home! Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giant diamonds of glass marked out an impressive star. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Someone painted a big yellow star on the window. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Rock stars plan relief concerts to raise funds. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So tired I was almost dreaming, I walked back to the square—past the post office, past the hardware store, past the movie theater with its dead marquee: plate glass, cracked sidewalks, stars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You should wear this pin close to your heart. Because more than anyone here, you are destined to be a star. I have no doubt that you’ll be on that Miss America stage one day.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There, between the clouds, they could see the constellations—each set of stars a story, spelled out in needlepoints of light and the imaginary threads that connected them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sword laid the in-truder open to the bone, taking off half his nose and open-ing a gash cheek to cheek under those eyes, eyes, eyes like blue stars burning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The stars popped in the night sky like distant firecrackers, and beyond them the great streak of the Milky Way came down out of heaven and draped a swathe into the ocean beyond. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Look at the stars. They are so beautiful and they are winking at us. I wish I was up there with them and the angels.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up toward the stars, but even the sky had turned murky. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That evening there was a banana moon and all kinds of sky-glitter—the name Genie made up for stars. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The sky was unusually clear and filled with stars, and a warm breeze rustled the trees. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

This makes them move away from each other and so tends to make the star expand. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the sky above, the stars burned clear and sharp. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And as they looked it seemed to them that the star grew brighter. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

And yet the Sun is an ordinary, even a mediocre star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the middle of the night when I was asleep, but Stephen has taken to getting up secretly and looking out of his bedroom window at the stars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered when Xan was young, how she would make ripe fruit explode in a shower of stars just by standing too closely. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Sun and stars controlled the seasons, food, warmth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night in this waterless air the stars come down just out of reach of your fingers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't paid any attention to the toggle before, but now I could see it was engraved with a four-pointed star. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We slept out under the silver moon and the bright stars. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita looked up at the sky where a few late stars winked down at her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

From dawn to dawn there was not a cloud, and at night the stars hung out of the sky, golden and cruel in their beauty. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The sky is dimmed of stars and Celia cannot identify their milky lights, their waning conclusions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Illuminating the bags of food, the sack of silver and tableware, the thick wool blankets of the North, the gold glittering on the drowned girl’s fingers, shining like stars in the crackle of the campfire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The exhausted track star leaned against the side of the building, thankful he was not a long-distance runner. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we left the gymnasium, the stars were so bright, they pulled me up into the sky like powerful magnets. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caterpillars, in all their strange and changeable glory, would play the starring role. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘And we have many of our own, which wouldn’t interest you, perhaps. But I have never heard this one. What is it about — the seven stars and seven stones?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Leaves rustled around him in welcome like fragrant green stars. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Drops of rain fall from my sky full of stars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We watched the stars from our place in the barn loft. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

This would require accurate observations over some 18 years, the time it takes for the Moon to complete one cycle of its wanderings against the background stars. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In order to prove this, he needed to determine the distances to these other galaxies, which are so far away that, unlike nearby stars, they really do appear fixed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As always, the plaza area was littered with a thousand fragments of recently torn-up parking tickets that looked like muddy stars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This equilibrium cannot last forever; the star has only a limited amount of hydrogen fuel to burn. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A star in the daytime, maybe, or the sun to shout, or even a mutter of thunder. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A woman who claimed the evening star tried to recruit her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Worlds and stars, like people, are born, live and die. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her bangs up from her forehead and counted the first few stars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Overhead, crystal chandeliers sparkled like stars in the soft evening light. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I look back up and think about how some stars don’t even really exist anymore, that seeing them is seeing the past. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Antain had just finished the final carved details on the headboard of a cradle—a sky full of bright stars. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Five stars,” Diego said, looking down at his completely clean plate. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Here is an example featuring children simultaneously singing three different children's songs29 that are set to the same tune: "Baa, Baa black sheep," "Twinkle, twinkle, little star," and "The Alphabet Song." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The sky is the darkest blue, each star clear and bright. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Nicholas thought the earth was a heavenly body which from a distance would shine like a star, an idea which caught Montaigne’s attention. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s barely after dusk, but already I can see more stars than I’ve ever seen in my life, blanketing the sky in a sheet of light. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Above them, the stars were brilliant, shining brighter than Flora had ever seen them shine. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

They sat on a rock and watched it go past, a great black sheet of glass full of stars, with the moon shining both above and below. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The stars slowly slip away from the hole in the roof as the doctor sinks deeper and deeper beneath my body. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun was safe on his roof, the city was silent and still, the stars were in their place. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And when they came forth evening had fallen and many stars were in the sky. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"The way's easy. Look for the Ice Dragon, and chase the blue star in the rider's eye." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They weren’t into movie stars or old movies. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The sky was so clear that the glint of stars, the glimmer of the moon shimmered across the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mack’s bed, like mine, was flat, hot, without sticks or stars. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Did hummingbirds flitter their way to the stars? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“She was my favorite movie star. So glamorous. Even as a baby, I knew you were someone special.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the life I was used to—and it felt as distant to this one as the stars in the night sky. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There shouldn’t have been that many stars in the sky. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I just stood on the balcony, looking up at the night sky, at the crook of the moon, at the spangle of stars—each one in its proper place. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above, the Red Sword shared the sky with half a thousand stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Someone who was never anxious, never tortured by doubt and indecision, someone who never stood as I did, hopeful, eager, frightened, tearing at bitten nails, uncertain which way to go, what star to follow. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I focus on the stars, and I send love to the aliens flying millions of miles from me in outer space. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Weeds like so many squinty-eyed stars and brush that made your ankles itch and itch until you washed with soap and water. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Above it the stars were thick in the dim sky, but there was no moon. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Niña, olvídate. Don’t worry yourself about this. We came out here to look at the beautiful stars, like young romantics.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She pointed up at another group of stars. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s just something about being crammed onto a dance floor with all your friends, surrounded by twinkle lights and dressed up like movie stars. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The second wonder was that the blackness overhead, all at once, was blazing with stars. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He stood staring out in the darkness, watching the moon and the stars perhaps, or perhaps the sentries on the wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That all you had to do was get discovered, and the studio took care of everything: your name, your image, which films you starred in, even who you went on dates with. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Long past midnight, Jake kept showing Sherman and me different planets and stars, until finally he sat down and leaned up against a brick chimney and went to sleep. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘See the stars out the window. It’s a hard thing to realize that every single one of those little stars is a planet as large as the earth.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Blond-haired, well built and as graceful as a cat on the court, Andre was one of South Africa’s rising tennis stars. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead, the stars are blanked out by clouds. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, if the stars got a bit farther away from each other, the repulsive forces would dominate and drive them farther apart. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like walking through the blackness of the sky, surrounded by thousands of stars. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Scholastic philosophers had fertile imaginations and had often imagined looking at the Earth from far away, even from the stars; but they had not imagined that the Earth would shine like the brightest stars. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The planes shine like gold stars up high. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

To understand how a black hole might be formed, we first need an understanding of the life cycle of a star. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had spoken peace and confidence into their troubled souls, had set a star before them and we were passing on to other scenes, still carrying the message. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one occasion, after he failed to appear for several potentially lucrative races, his agent found him starring in a bull-riding exhibition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky above him was sprinkled with so many stars there hardly seemed to be any space left for the darkness. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Wherever she was, it was clear and full of stars. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One of the little boards he shaped in a lovely curve, and around its edges he carved leaves and flowers and stars, and through it he cut crescent moons and curlicues. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this happened in about the time that it would take a sixpenny rocket to start off with its fiery swish, bend down from its climax and disperse itself in thunder and coloured stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mqhayi then began to recite his well-known poem in which he apportions the stars in the heavens to the various nations of the world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steam floated between them and up to the stars. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep, because I woke up with the stars in my face. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I flicked the plastic star in the air and watched it spin across the room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In colors of rose and lavender and purple it moved and pulsed against the night, and the frost-sharpened stars shone through it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The star ran one pale forefinger up and down the silver chain that went between them, tracing the line of it about her slim wrist, and made no reply. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope the restaurant is able to run without its star chef!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over, and each day was as long as a life-age of the earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

For nearby stars, we can measure their apparent brightness and their distance, and so we can work out their luminosity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes scanned the room, alighting on Tristran and the star huddled by the fire. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here in Oklahoma, where Ray is the star of nightmares and the international Bible study, there is a Persian man who owns a rug store in the rich part of Tulsa. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Over the olive grove in a sunken sky and a dark rain of cold evening stars. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he lectured about my inappropriate behavior, I studied the inky little stars and hearts I had drawn on my arm that morning. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The stars on my ceiling were glowing bright neon green now, as they always did right after I turned the lights off. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But then a baffling and magnificent thing happened—one by one, the stars came out, here and there a green flash in the dark. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Soon there was only the moon and one star. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The stars that I know are on the other side of the gym ceiling don't make sense. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Away from the fire, the night is dark—clouds are covering the stars, and there ain’t no moon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tristran slept on the leather seat of the coach, his head on a sack of oats; he dreamed of ghosts, and of the moon and stars. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was as ragged as a rock star, but his missing teeth and the unhealthy pallor of his skin spoke eloquently of a life of privation and despair. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But why should God leave a huge empty space, at least hundreds of times bigger than the gaps between the planets, between the outermost planet and the stars? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And when these moods came upon him, he would slip out of the house, and lie upon the grass, and stare up at the stars. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The way the night stars help us when we're lost and tell all sorts of different stories?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was just past twilight and the stars were coming out from wherever it was they hid during the day. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

People love their sports stars, and athletics are the great social equalizer. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“My dad, growing up in the sixties, he thinks he’s a rock star, or he wanted to be,” Tyler says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Rigel was a blue star, smaller than Betelgeuse, Dad said, but even brighter. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’re full of numbers and words and arrows and lines that connect the dots of stars into constellations I’ve never seen before. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When a star runs out of fuel, it starts to cool off and so to contract. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Did he have a long white beard and tall pointed hat speckled with stars?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Occasionally I’ve snuck out of my room and sat on the steps to my trailer, listening to the night, gazing up at the stars, dreaming. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Jim, a year ahead of me and a football star, usually got several dedications every day from admiring girls. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After Spencer refused, Hale spoke to the bootlegger and rodeo star Henry Grammer, who promised to provide a man for the job. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It is just as well that large lumps of neutron star matter are unknown on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie looked toward the moon—no stars there—it was probably too bright. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A throwing star cuts through the air, and I barely register the fact that it has grazed my arm. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The salmon lady well to the front, her face eager with expectation, a remark for every star that fell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

To put it squarely, such versions of the story failed to provide him with a starring role in the drama. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As far as he could see there were blue-coated white men with bright silver stars shining on their chests. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And, unlike a comet, the new star stood still, which made it much easier to measure its parallax. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For just a few seconds, Barry the believer imagined that he had a power star of his own somewhere. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up, blowing fine Whfll spray across the raft Then the stars came out We stayed in the middle of the raft, side by side, as it drifted aimlessly over the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he emerged into a sort of wide circular chamber, formed by the meeting of six different tunnels, all coming together in a star shape. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Not like a medical doctor, but an astrophysicist—a scientist who studies the planets, stars, and other objects in space and how they work. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The walls hold beautiful marble carvings of the stars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I step back as some of the objects fly over my head like shooting stars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On Jackie’s last day in Colby, she and Bertha sat together at the sewing machine in my room and talked about boys and clothes and movie stars while they worked on a zipper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There’s only a big, dark-skinned guy in deep blue robes and a matching blue African kufi hat embroidered with silvery stars. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Gravity gets weaker the farther you are from the star, so the gravitational force on our intrepid astronaut’s feet would always be greater than the force on his head. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a general who had been stripped of his stars, he limited his smile. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see it now—a blue star centered on a white field, surrounded by a red border. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“See the stars? And that asteroid field? And that lonely satellite going by? There’s no gravity. You’re weightless. You can do anything you want with your body. You just have to think it.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was gray, the stars were fading, when we got back to where we started. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There, strangers were as rare as shooting stars, and just as portentous. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I recall one sermon in which he talked about the three Wise Men from the East who followed a star until it led them to Bethlehem. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even that dark wish she made on one of those stars. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m bone-tired from cranking on that winch but too excited to go to bed yet, so I go out on the dock and stand there under all the stars and admire the boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Isabelle told Hugo about other movies she loved: comedies and cartoons and cowboy movies starring someone named Tom Mix. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He was a star player on the team. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I come to regret it, because of course he pulls us into orbit around the star formation that is Jupe-and-Coop. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s the size of my palm and twinkles in its case like a tiny star. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of absolute quiet, I think about why Boy21 might be arranging stars in his bedroom. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glittery stars gleam on the parchment, holding the promise of excitement. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

M. Bouc was a Belgian, a director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons Lits, and his acquaintance with the former star of the Belgian Police Force dated back many years. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first star made me feel less afraid. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I swear it to the skies, to the stars. You’ll pay.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The mole at the comer of my mouth is no longer a mole; now it’s a beauty mark, just like a movie star’s. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up to the stars and tried to figure out which was the best one. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He leans over my shoulder and pulls down some lever and the stars rush even closer and he’s right, I am losing my mind, but not because of the stars this time. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In my small cartoon hand is a balloon, the top bursting, and hundreds of stars pouring out of it, rolling across the page to Will. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There was Bill Corso, a sophomore like us and the up-and-coming star quarterback. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I turned a corner and staggered against a wall as pain stars blinded me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I'll have to trust you, on your honor as a star, not to run away," he said. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these fixed stars do, in fact, appear to change very slightly their positions relative to each other as the earth orbits around the sun: they are not really fixed at all! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, when the stars were still in the sky, we began our preparations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed up at the sky and said, “So the light pollution is terrible, but the brightest star you see—there, see it?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The stars were eager to participate; hardly had the blan­ket of colour been pulled a little than they started to shine through the deep blue. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else,” said Alec thoughtfully, “and I’ve heard that they walk among the stars.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just before World War I, Harlow Shapley of Missouri devised a technique for measuring the distances to the globular clusters, those lovely spherical arrays of stars which resemble a swarm of bees. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if there had been sunlight just moments ago, it suited them now to have stars, so they did. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Others fancied elaborate armor studded with gemstones, or tall pointed hats speckled with stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The cliff towered into the night, the countless stars were kindled, the wind blew cold, and the doors stood fast. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I turned to him and said, “Look, Papi. There are so many stars.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Nathan stared at the stars above as Uncle Jet drove, and he was rocked and jolted around in the back of the truck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And he took the star's hand in his, and he pressed it to his breast and smiled. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wears a cardigan with a yellow star sewn to it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She’d get all their clues, and even if they all won together, Mr. Lemoncello would definitely make her the real star of his TV commercials. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Astronomers have observed many systems in which two stars orbit around each other, attracted toward each other by gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One cannot, of course, immediately conclude that the companion is a black hole: it might merely be a star that is too faint to be seen. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily smiled, her face lit by the stars. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We both loved books and stories about stars and distant planets and spaceships. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Smack in the middle of the season, star linebackers and star quarterbacks were suddenly lost to the team because of a grade below 70 in algebra or English or biology. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Betelgeuse was a red star in the shoulder of the constellation Orion. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seen him in the movements of the stars. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

A globular cluster of stars, orbiting the galactic core. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They therefore change their apparent position relative to other stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning when the stars were still visible in the sky, the farmer stopped the wagon. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We know that dog, don’t we? Howls at the stars? Chases the sun?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Among zookeepers, Goliath’s death is famous; he was a bull elephant seal, a great big venerable beast of two tons, star of his European zoo, loved by all visitors. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Upon discovering the wolves, she had settled down to live near them in the hope of sharing their food, until the sun set and the stars came out to guide her. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So we checked our stuff real fast, then rushed—I mean, ran like track stars, even Mr. Dimming—down to the gate to get that early flight.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The moonlight washed over everything like a rich bath of gold and silver, making the fish shimmer like pearls and the girl glow with a magical glory reserved for the stars of heaven. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A world of stars and darkness gave no reply. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Bertha called out, “Star! First star! Everybody make a wish!” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Obviously, I was never going to star at this place. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The star tumbled, a streak of light, through the night sky, and it tumbled down somewhere to the south and west of them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When supper was over, the three humans and Atal sat on rugs outside Mary’s house, under the warm stars. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

With a third or half a trillion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy alone, could ours be the only one accompanied by an inhabited planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is easy to see that only a very restricted range of laws of nature are consistent with galaxies and stars, planets, life and intelligence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if corn is the star of this story, is it the hero or is it the bad guy? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the infrared part of the spectrum, it might even be correct to consider Jupiter a star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears’ function to do this just as it is the eyes’ business to make stars twinkle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he leapt into the air, soared swiftly into the sky, and vanished among the scattered stars. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I went upstairs around 10, did some homework in my room, and looked at a couple stars with my telescope—Vega and Epsilon Lyrae. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the second verse, he’s warmed up and throwing me cheesy pop star looks with eyebrow raises, penetrating stares, and pouty lips. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But the whole universe is outside us. Look at the stars! Some of them are a million light-years away. They are out of our reach forever.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The evidence is clear: Ptolemaic astronomy was unaffected by Copernicus; it went into crisis with the new star of 1572, but by the end of the sixteenth century it had fully recovered. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

"I do not think that I believe you, or trust you," said the star. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Why, it was pasted with as many moons as stars! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I needed to get as much rest as possible, since the next day was to be a busy one, and included my standing up in the open hatch and photographing a number of stars. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kant suggested explicitly that M31 in the constellation Andromeda was another Milky Way, composed of enormous numbers of stars, and proposed calling such objects by the evocative and haunting phrase “island universes.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked so effortlessly “movie star,” Dimple wanted to hate her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I told her, “You could be a movie star.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sky has turned fully dark now, the stars erased from view by the neon streets of Tokyo below. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The night came down around them, and there were stars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was quick to claim my trophy, though, heading home that afternoon with my head up and one of those gold-foil stars stuck on my shirt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Never in my life, he thought, have I been farther away from the stars than I am now. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I tilt my head back and see a sky full of stars. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once it was dark, we remained by the instruments and saw the stars in their vaster orbits above us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Amaroq stumbled, pressed back his ears, and galloped across the tundra like a shooting star. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sir; the star would say in her turn, that I shall do with all my heart. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It moved slowly, a shooting star that didn’t want to die. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, we have to ruin them with the yellow star. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Exhibit A, star of the show. Can’t have you run down by one of these motorized Chicago cowboys or mugged and rolled on State Street?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When our solar system is all explored, the planets of other stars will beckon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking home, my shadow shows eels dancing on my head with tails in shapes of bows, stars, hearts. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You are a star, Chubs, a—” His nose wrinkled at the name. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For a long time he looked up as her dark shape grew smaller and smaller against the stars. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Like star-crossed, which doesn’t mean stars zigzagging across the sky. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The longer you looked and the more your eyes adjusted to the dark, the more stars you’d see, layer after layer of them gradually becoming visible. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The eunuchs who served them threw bundles of dried grasses into a great bronze brazier, and clouds of fragrant smoke rose up toward the moon and the stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before the beginning there was nothing—no earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky: only the mist world, formless and shapeless, and the fire world, always burning. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’m not a boy. I don’t want to be a basketball star.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

At night Lynn, Sam, and I would lie outside in the empty street and watch the stars. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I want to keep my lives separate—Virginia the poor indigena in Yana Urku, Virginia the rich indigena at queen rehearsals; Virginia the dishwasher at the hotel, Virginia the star student at school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, make sure the star gets extra dessert tonight!” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

And she reached into her teacher bag and pulled out a strip of sticky gold stars. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his thirties, Liszt became music’s first international star, embarking on a merry-go-round of European tours, where he was known, and treated, as ‘The King of the Piano’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He adjusts his stance until his feet are planted wide, bows his head so that his hair obscures his face, and holds the microphone up in the air in one hand—classic rock star pose. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you are,” Judge Strauss said, stars in her eyes and Sunny in her hands. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mainly to avoid all the staring eyes, Harry looked upward and saw a velvety black ceiling dotted with stars. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They would need 40,000 years to go the distance to the nearest star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time I sit, watching them and staring at the sky, full of zillions of stars. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were four of the stars of the junior-high track team, but we moved through that basement a few timid steps at a time. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Not only athletic ability, but also star power, no pun intended. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it’s our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Trembling he looked up, in time to see a tall dark figure like a shadow against the stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And even though it was Sarah Ruth’s star, Edward wished on it, too. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

They do not understand, consequendy, what so pleases the television audience listening to a movie star discuss his divorce with bogus private language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached Volantis, the sky was purple to the west and black to the east, and the stars were coming out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He could find no evidence of parallax, and this was an important factor in convincing him that the Earth is fixed, with the stars rotating about it on their crystal sphere. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Digges and Benedetti had not read Bruno, so they had not encountered his theory that, from a distance, the Earth would be indistinguishable from a star. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I know that is a strange name for a dog, but it is the name of one of the stars in the Big Dipper, in the northern part of the sky. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing these old jeans and a baggy T-shirt, and her long hair is tied back and she's probably sweating, but she still looks like a movie star. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It stayed visible for eighteen months, and in all that time it never moved relative to the other stars. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The scarf with its gold and silver moon and stars had been admired by all of us. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She can navigate by the stars, and by dead reckoning, but I think she learned to use her sense of direction properly because her granddad gave her a motorbike for her sixteenth birthday. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I know. But maybe this is how it was always written in stone or the stars or whatever: Two dudes meet. They fall for each other. They die.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

From sun and moon and star they had been safe underground, but now a star had descended into the very earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe because stars don’t just belong to the Greater Jungle or the Zamani Region. We see them the same no matter where we are on this continent.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I sang it over and over and the stars came out — “Do not forsake me, my sister, my sheep, Slumber ye gently and heal in thy sleep.” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The star would, however, continue to exert the same gravitational force on the spaceship, which would continue to orbit the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So close to that star, on the other side of far. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The first stars flickered on like the lights over the movie marquee downtown. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Under the stars and with the night colder all the time he ate half of one of the dolphin fillets and one of the flying fish, gutted and with its head cut off. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hip-hop heads consider them pop stars, not real rappers. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The comet and its tail approaches slowly among the stars and the people standing around the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the dim light of the stars their stems were grey, and their quivering leaves a hint of fallow gold. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Sally Field earned back her goodwill with my family when she starred in the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I like to be called Stella because it reminds me of stars, and I like the night. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A tiny sparkling light no bigger than a child’s pinkie fingernail floated through the troubled air between them like a miniature star. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huygens did not shrink from this conclusion; he embraced it gladly: Across the sea of space the stars are other suns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night was in by now and the stars were white in the sky. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s standing in front of a huge star chart with her hands on her hips. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were relieved to see the red stars on the wings, but stared at Raya in amazement when she climbed out of it—a woman flying a fighter plane! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The stars are still hiding themselves from us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately fresh ones shoot up in the sky, and again green, red, and blue stars. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I fell forward instead of down, and the stars seemed to fall with me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A roomful of NBA stars, young and on top of the world, might have intimidated anyone, let alone Reggie, a good basketball player himself, who aspired to coach and lead players. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In her borrowed bed in the dark interior of the caravan the star slept on, unaware how close she had come to her doom, nor by how slim a margin she had escaped it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Plastic stars wait on the cold ceiling, watching the light switch, nervous, ready for the dark and their cue to glow. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Over the dying embers of the campfire, on a moonless night, we watched the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the star of the east shone on stage. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They measured the spokes, making certain they were of identical lengths, then wrapped a thread that turned the spokes into an eight-angled star with a perfect center. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

On her finger was Nenya, the ring wrought of mithril, that bore a single white stone flickering like a frosty star. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Up above, the sky would be spangled, and he could sit side by side with Lizzie and watch the stars fall out of their places in sudden shrieks of light. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Now you look like a professional movie star, Martin!” he said. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The telescope, for instance, had given scientists the ability to find moons and stars that had never been observed before. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Grandfather had already collapsed on his covers, snoring loud enough to shake the stars from the sky. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Newton’s law, the extra stars would make no difference at all to the original ones on average, so the stars would fall in just as fast. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to the audience and waved a little, like a movie star. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was definitely going to have to go out on that porch tonight and wait for the first star to come out so I could make my wish again. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Other stars began to appear all around, but it was this one I kept my gaze upon. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun sank below Ladle Hill and the autumn stars began to shine in the darkening east—Perseus and the Pleiades, Cassiopeia, faint Pisces and the great square of Pegasus. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because I'm a girl and the academic star of my class, many kindhearted teachers have gone out of their way to protect me. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the owl cried; it sang to the million stars that dotted the dark-blue sky, the Virgin’s gown. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her window stays dark, only the streetlamps and the stars shine, white brightness. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a habit. I’ve only seen the sky full of stars when Dad used to take me on road trips through the countryside. I’ve looked for the constellations ever since then.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All those movie stars and bankers and rich old Italians. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sun, no stars, only the ground below coming up to smash him, and the grey mists, and the whispering voice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were in a gigantic cave studded with stars. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He proved to be fully up to the challenge, reigning as the star of two front-page articles in the New York Times and a prominent feature in Time magazine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The lights are out at Freak's house, and I'm thinking: The stars clicked off and I don't even know why I'm thinking that, it's like a dead voice in my head or something. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Turner looked over his shoulder to the east, more than a few stars had already yawned themselves awake and were stretching to begin their run. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was a clear night, with crickets and a million stars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And if I’m such a rock star, how come the media always portrays me as some unwashed geek who never goes outside? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Each star system is an island in space, quarantined from its neighbors by the light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

First there were the Gamemakers, making me their star and then scrambling to recover from that handful of poisonous berries. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He stood there beside the sentinel, longsword in hand, his cloak billowing behind him as the wind came up, outlined nobly against the stars for all to see. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The droplets of water falling from the blade of the oar were tiny stars, extinguished as quickly as they burned into being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The star went spinning upward into the darkness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was a baseball star, one of the top players in the area, a naturally strong and fast child who rode a two-wheeler before he was four years old. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When he finally was convinced he had interested us in astronomy, Dad started a new series of wall paintings dealings with stars. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear and dark and bright with stars. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What I want to know,” she said, “is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Why would they when a Hollywood star is a few feet away? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As we make our way to the main entrance, I see adults who remind me of Hollywood movie stars and fashion magazine models. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The stars you see at night, the planets, all the comets and the shooting stars, these are the sparks that flew from the fires of Muspell. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The stars grew thick and bright in the sky above. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The sky was curved, like the inside of a huge glass ball, very dark blue with the sprinkles of bright stars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then she told me that a bona fide rock star had come to the hospital on my behalf. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it calmed her to sing it now as she attached the red, blue, and white wires to the statue of Miss Miss. Heavenly stars, but she’d had a busy few days! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“But for stars?” the interviewer asked, meaning, Wouldn’t they have made an exception for you? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He watched out at the stars in a kind of trance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first red star from the first side of the first tape. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It is really a triple system, two stars revolving around each other, and a third, Proxima Centauri, orbiting the pair at a discreet distance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isa’s eyes followed Jessie as she walked slowly around the basement, running her fingers through thick, nubby carpets hung on the wall and gently touching delicate silver stars strung above. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was softer and more lifting than the song by which he had called up the stars and the sun; a gentle, rippling music. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He even played on the college’s first soccer team, where he was a star performer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twilight was coming on apace and a star or two was already out, but the remains of the sunset could still be seen in the west. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

To their surprise, they found an intense and previously unreported source that seemed to correspond to no prominent star, nebula or galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willie has become a sturdily built young man with a movie star smile and a precisely trimmed goatee. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This star, in turn, contains an even smaller pentagon, which contains a tinier star with its tiny pentagon, and so forth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I looked down at it, a star inside a star inside a star. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The stars on the table almost seem to move in the undulating candlelight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tonight, the club would be packed with celebrities—movie stars, musicians, and at least two members of the High Five. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When the war ended, George was an MI6 officer whose star was on the rise. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He crawled deeper into the black gauzy web where he could rest in the silence, where his coming and going through this world was no more than a star falling across the night sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When you aim for the stars, sometimes you run into angry asteroids named Ainsley. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Ships arrive from other stars, tracing lines of credit and expense through the skies, constellations of commerce. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nestled within the lines of the star is a pentagon. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The points of the star extended just beyond the outer edge of the circle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The new stars and the new voices began at exactly the same time. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

This insight has since been applied upward to the stars, and sideways to many subsets of the human family, with great success and invariable opposition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t that be a fun job—signing movie stars’ pictures! The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sky was littered with an infinite number of stars. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Occasionally there seems to be a bridge of gas and dust and stars connecting them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z