“You're my lodestar – that's the one that sailors followed, the Pole Star that took them safely home to harbour.” he said.“And I suppose you're like a shooting star” she responded “Always travelling in unexpected directions”And like a shooting star, he had disappeared over the edge of her world, taking all the light and leaving her in cold darkness.”
“The wanderlust crept up again inside her like a shooting star, a sudden, violent urge to escape disappearing into darkness again. She pushed down the afterglow and focused.”
“Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake," he said. "That's a deer shooting hat.""Like hell it is." I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. "This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.”
“but I know you're the brightest shooting star in the sky - Astrid”
“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
“It is in this darkness that I have found all light— somehow become so bright, a shooting star on a stormy night.”