“You could tell she thought, the time of night by the stars and moon, when the night was clear. And you tell, too, that the winter was over and summer coming on. They moved, the stars did, changing places in the sky with the hours, and changing places as the seasons passed them by. She thought about it, wondered about the stars and moon, wondered why they’d been put there to shine in the night…why they moved. It wasn’t a thing she could study out, though. It was past e’er human body’s knowing, she guessed. There were some things that couldn’t be studied out.”

–Janice Holt Giles, Hannah Fowler