The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time :: 2.2011

And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they’re already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs.

Excerpt from Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”