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“When I looked up at the stars, I saw us. You were the stars and I was the dark sky behind you��
“Without dark sky you couldn’t see the stars��
“I knew I was useful�� he says
“You’re essential”
― Jenn Bennett, Starry Eyes

“What's that?"
"French press."
"For coffee? Real coffee? Not instant?"
"We're camping, Zorie, not living in a dystopian nightmare.”
― Jenn Bennett, Starry Eyes

“We?"
"You and me, yes."
"The two of us hiking to Condor Peak? Alone?"
"I wasn't planning on inviting the bear along, but if you think we need a chaperone..”
― Jenn Bennett, Starry Eyes

“We’re under the same starry sky,�� I say.
“We always are.��
“Not together,�� I argue.
“I think we’ve always been together, even when we were apart,�� he says, slipping his hand around mine.
“I know it’s a cliché, but sometimes I would look up at the stars and wonder if you were ever looking at them at the same time,�� I admit.
“When I looked up at the stars, I saw us. You were the stars, and I was the dark sky behind you.”
― Jenn Bennett, Starry Eyes

“You were the stars, and I was the dark sky behind you."
"Without dark sky, you couldn't see the stars."
"I knew I was useful," he says.
"You're essential.”
― Jenn Bennett, Starry Eyes

“You with the stars
in your eyes
put them back
in the sky.
You're ruining it
for the rest of us.”
― Pamela August Russell, B is for Bad Poetry

“For our one-month anniversary, he made me a picture map.

A map of us.

It’s years in the making, and it’s messy and convoluted, some of it even tragic. But I wouldn’t change the route, because we walked it together, even when we were apart. And the best part about it is that it’s unfinished.

Uncertainty isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes it can even be filled with extraordinary potential.”
― Jenn Bennett, Starry Eyes

“With starry eyes we forget what is literally the oldest trick in The Book: that the very first 'liberal' was one of deception - a snake in the Garden - and he corrupted paradise.”
― Criss Jami