“It's like the Boss always says: they're just meat wrapped around a blazing star. We don't mourn the wrapping once it's discarded, we celebrate the freeing of the star.”

“We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.”

“I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.”

“stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves”

“I turn around and wrap my arms around his neck."Whoa, girl," he says taken aback. "I thought we were keepin' this thing between us a secret. I hate to tell you, but a bunch of north siders from Fairfield are right over there. And they're starin' at us""I don't care. Not anymore""Why""You only live once”

“..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”