“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin
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Irish writer and journalist 1965Related quotes

“Blot out the moon,
Pull down the stars.
Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
So soon, so soon.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

"I am Goya"; translated by Stanley Kunitz, p. 3.
Antiworlds, and the Fifth Ace

“More stars fall from the loosened sky.”
Pluraque laxato ceciderunt sidera caelo.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 145

Title track, In The Falling Dark (See also: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 62-63) Just Listen.. http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=lYAFzVTLIQs
In the Falling Dark (1976)