“they loved us, those stars. They must have, anyway, for they did what no one did, what even we could not: they saw us and spared us.”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com
“I know about the stars. That night they made shadows of us, made us bigger, wilder than we were--”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com
“My heartbeat and breaths all sound too loud, as if I, such an overall insignificant specimen in these muted hours, am occupying too large of a space; too dense and volatile of an existence to be permitted a moment of contented peace.”— Mia Ingallina, thoughtcatalog.com
“Far more likely is that I, so eager to capture metaphors and twist them around and around until I lose interest, simply find loneliness sometimes too heavy a burden to bear. It is that I, not unlike every other person who has and who will ever walk this earth, look to the million stars twinkling ove…”— Mia Ingallina, thoughtcatalog.com
“Some days we can see Venus in midafternoon. Then at night, stars separated by billions of miles, light traveling years to die in the back of an eye. Is there a vocabulary for this—one to make dailiness amplify and not diminish wonder?”— Kaveh Akbar, narrativemagazine.com