Stars

"And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars."

~Dante's Inferno

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Stars.

Finally, the sun set and the birds flew away. Edward hung by his ears and looked up at the night sky. He saw the stars. But for the first time in his life, he looked at them and felt no comfort. Instead, he felt mocked.

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. 

So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?

Edward could think of no answer to that question.

-Kate DiCamillo

Chapter XV, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane