Aleena F. Khalid

“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

“Lennon is the moon: often dark and hidden, but closer than any star. Always there.”
― Jenn Bennett, Starry Eyes

“You can't do this to me.You were the one who lectured me about living.You were the one who said I had to get out and see what was right in front of me and make the most of it and not wish my time away and find my mountain because my mountain was waiting, and all that adds up to life.But then you leave.You can't just do that.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him last.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places