The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories. All it did was embrace the heavy past with a cool, measured detachment. On the moon there was neither air nor wind. Its vacuum was perfect for preserving memories unscathed. No one could unlock the heart of the moon. Aomame raised her glass to the moon and asked, “Have you gone to bed with someone in your arms lately?” The moon did not answer. “Do you have any friends?” she asked. The moon did not answer. “Don’t you get tired of always playing it cool?” The moon did not answer.
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Related A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are... JAMES ELROY FLECKER I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars. DAVID MACKAY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon,... EDWARD LEAR Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out... MICHAEL FOSSEL The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gath... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The moon has seen many a theory come and go. MARTY RUBIN The moon was sewn into the sky that night MARKUS ZUSAK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to... DREW HOUSTON We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new. BURT RUTAN We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult. ALAN BEAN Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." STEVEN ERIKSON The moon will never lie to anyone. Be like the moon. No one hates the moon or wants to kill it. The ... HENRY ROLLINS Drink wine and look at the moon and think of all the civilisations the moon has seen passi... OMAR KHAYYáM It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they... ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one ... SARAH DESSEN It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. ... SARAH DESSEN On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me. Your lips a magic world, Your ... ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. PATRICK ROTHFUSS The sea loved the moon When she was supposed to love the shore. The moon knew A... SAIBER Ah, youth! It was a beautiful night... The moon was out of orbit. The stars were awry... ROMAN PAYNE Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude. ~The Moon Ma... CLARA DIANE THOMPSON The Cat and the Moon The cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top... W.B. YEATS Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the m... VERA NAZARIAN When you fly to the moon you don't need a rocket. You just need the imagination! ANTHONY T.HINCKS MY MOON I'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon i... COCO J. GINGER She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But... EDITH PATTOU S:uch is Heaven on Earth, in all land A:s the sun brightens to the moon N:ails the Creati... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Calligraphy of geese against the sky- the moon seals it. YOSA BUSON If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full - a heavy, full, waxin... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY She dabbed at the surface of the water with one paw, and the moon fluttered like silver wings before... ERIN HUNTER Another relative?" Valek asked. A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother'... MARIA V. SNYDER If I seem to be reckless with myself, It's the fault of no one. All things have a place ... ELLIOTT SMITH O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb, L... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace, I can only show you at night ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES We sate on the terrace. Again gazing at the moon. I don't understand women's obsession with the moon... KIRTIDA GAUTAM As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. PABLO NERUDA The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting ou... MARY OLIVER With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sw... JOHN MILTON You are guarded and full of light at the same time, like the moon before she und... PAVANA पवन Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust. BRADLEY CHICHO I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all ov... ERNEST HEMINGWAY In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all ... RICHARD DREYFUSS I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind. "Char... EDITH PATTOU At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The Moon And, like a dying lady lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapp'd in ... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We'll Go No More A-roving So, we'll go no more a-roving So late into the nigh... GEORGE GORDON BYRON If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something be... SYLVIA PLATH i want to be in love with you the same way i am in love with the moon SANOBER KHAN It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door t... EOIN COLFER The people on earth thought her to be one of the countless stars, how little did they know—she is ... RICHA PANDEY If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon fr... BASMAH BINT SAUD Ghost?” I asked. Moon Man pointed to Valek. “Kiki’s name for him. It makes sense,” he s... MARIA V. SNYDER I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in... ROMAN PAYNE moon dust in your lungs stars in your eyes you are a child of the cosmos and ruler of... MEDUESA I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when ... ALEXANDRA PAUL We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we wen... EUGENE CERNAN The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars... DAVID IGNATIUS We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we wen... GENE CERNAN Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway. ILONA ANDREWS We needed a refrigerator for our new place and I've never bought a refrigerator my whole life. I wen... BRIAN REGAN Nothing touches your skin of sweat (meltdown of oceanic kisses) when the purple light BEAR STEP And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. The moon. The moon.... EDWARD LEAR And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon.... EDWARD LEAR I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kenne... EVEL KNIEVEL Some people in the town did not seem to care about the festival and were watching football on TV. Th... OLIVIA SUDJIC I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted... CHRISTOPHER PIKE You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon. JAMES THURBER To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in ev... FERNANDO PESSOA Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with li... J.R.R. TOLKIEN If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it HAUSA PROVERB How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk... OMAR KHAYYáM The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bri... EUGENE CERNAN The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bri... GENE CERNAN Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can'... ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals,... NICOLAUS COPERNICUS I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you. MICHAEL ONDAATJE In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's ca... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out <... GAUTAMA BUDDHA There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by han... KABIR The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make... LEWIS CARROLL If there was a religion of Annaism, and I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it wou... JODI PICOULT I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to M... WALLY SCHIRRA As the moon is bodily entering into the shadow of the Earth, it appears as if this shadow is creepin... BRAD SCHAEFER Dead tree branches rattled, the cold wind seethed, it prattled of abominations about to u... A. LEE BROCK Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers... PETER THIEL A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. ... STEPHENIE MEYER I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our f... VIRGINIA WOOLF Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," EDGAR ALLAN POE A restaurant on the moon could not have had less atmosphere. GEOFF DYER When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we... MITT ROMNEY Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t... RON PAUL In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat ju... MARGARET WISE BROWN She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her SUSAN ENGBERG it was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to m... SANOBER KHAN It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is the very error of the moon;She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,And drives men mad. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had n... PETER DIAMANDIS
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Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate... HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra... HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly... HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee... HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho... HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer,... 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