“She turned her face up to the strange stars and wondered in what direction her course lay. The sky looked blankly down upon her with its myriad meaningless eyes.”

—  C. L. Moore

Black God's Kiss (1934); p. 23
Short fiction, Jirel of Joiry (1969)

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