"Whenever I think about those two days- about the space between you ending and me knowing -I think about the stars. Did you know that the light from our nearest star takes four years to reach us? Which means when we see it- when we see any star -we are really seeing what it looked like in the past. All those twinkling lights, every start in the sky, could have burned out years ago- the entire night sky could be empty this very minute, and we wouldn't even know it."

From the Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin