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Quotes About Evening

So you're not going to speak tonight," Tessa said. "At all." "Not unless you instruct me to," said Will. "This evening sounds as if it might be better than I thought.
~ Cassandra Clare
Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or saw ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad I that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?
~ Cassandra Clare
Jem" I have an assignmation in Soho this evening with a certain attractive someone. Tessa: Goodness. If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions. Jem choked on his tea.
~ Cassandra Clare
Mark: "A strange evening, forsooth," he said. Emma: "Don't you forsooth me.
~ Cassandra Clare
I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.
~ Cassandra Clare
Those last few minutes with him this evening had been a revelation. They weren't words of self-pity, but more like confession of guilt, the guilt of having wasted a life and the pity that there was no second chance. You had one and that was all. He must
~ Catherine Cookson
Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight,
~ Catherynne M. Valente
That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
They ate and picked sand from their chicken in the pink light.
~ Cathleen Schine
The night was mossy and hot...
~ Cathleen Schine
This is what I write to her: The clouds tonight embossed the sky.
~ Geraldine Brooks
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
~ Gertrude Stein
Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
Good evening England. This is Gillie Potter speaking to you in English.
~ Gillie Potter
The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.
~ Gina Buonaguro
[I]s there anyone so foolish, even though he is young, as to feel absolutely sure that he will be alive when evening comes?
~ Cicero
Our wants are many, our farthings few; And oft we sleep in the rain and dew! Our evening meal is a turnip stew; In spite of all we're a jolly crew!
~ Jack Vance
Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -
~ Jacqueline Winspear
At length, she lay beside him like a burden laid down at evening which must be picked up once more in the morning.
~ James Baldwin
and the whole place looked tired and discouraged, as though wearily about to shave and get dressed for a terrible evening.
~ James Baldwin
Whenever we ate breakfast, and wherever we walked, when we got home we were always too tired to sleep right away. We made coffee and sometimes drank cognac with it; we sat on the bed and talked and smoked.
~ James Baldwin
It was the hour when darkness begins, when the sounds of the night begin.
~ James Baldwin
I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.
~ Amelie Nothomb