O stars,
isn't it from you that the lover's desire for the face
of his beloved arises? Doesn't his secret insight
into her pure features come from the pure constellations?

From "The Third Elegy" by Rainer Maria Rilke (via The Amber Spyglass by Philip J. Pullman)

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars. (pg 95)

One moment the moon was not there, and then it was, the one bright star. We walked across the desert, hand in hand, saying nothing. (pg 94)

"The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase ou senses. Then--maybe--the eath will touch us. The univese will speak. The stars will whisper." (Stargirl speaking, pg 91)

from Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli