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Quotes About Dusk

The sun, heavy and red, was almost down on the horizon now. Its image floated like spilled fire on the water. The
~ Ross MacDonald
Now the day is over,Night is drawing nigh;Shadows of the eveningSteal across the sky.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.
~ Margaret Atwood
Sometimes in the dusk he runs up and down on the sand, flinging stones at the ocean and screaming, Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! He feels better afterwards.
~ Margaret Atwood
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out. At least, it has been interesting, if not comfortable, to witness a Gotterdammerung.' 'A what?' 'A dusk of the gods. Unfortunately, we Southerners did think we were gods.
~ Margaret Mitchell
At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
~ Tom Petty
And dusk fell because it suited his skin.
~ Anne Enright
All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
~ Anne Rice
There would be no twilight, I realized that. Ah, very sad indeed. But as a vampire I often beheld the twilight. So why should I complain?
~ Anne Rice
It had been the golden time of evening when the sun is gone and everything gives back the light it has absorbed all day long.
~ Anne Rice
Deidre called it twilight. Rita had seen the word written out, all right, but she'd never heard anyone really say it. Twilight.
~ Anne Rice
Cemetery. It had been the golden time of evening when the sun is gone and everything gives back the light it has absorbed all day long.
~ Anne Rice
Twilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with stars and fleecy clouds the colour of plums.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Rowdy and I played one-on-one for hours. we played until dark. we played until the streetlights lit up court. we played until the bats swooped down at our heads. we played until the moon was huge and golden and perfect in the dark sky. we didn't keep score.
~ Sherman Alexie
In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and over the dusking sky.
~ Joy Harjo
And so, forbidden by a Roman official and warned by a slave, I went forth at dusk to meet with a high-class Greek prostitute.
~ John Maddox Roberts
Night started to fall, then it fell, till it was lying all over the ground.
~ John Marsden
grey tint slipping round the edges of the shutters at the windows.
~ Elizabeth Bailey
She leaned back against the rough trunk of a tree, half-invisible in the twilight except where it caught in glimmers on the titian of her hair.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It is about five o'clock in an evening that the first hour of spring strikes — autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Her hair gives dawn it's fire, her eyes give dusk her soul" He knew how to use his voice to melt a girl's heart, to make a girl want to believe. I steeled myself against the seductive words. "Excuse me?" "It's a line of poetry describing a beautiful girl, one who doesn't seem to know it.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.
~ Arthur Phillips
There is more betwixt the day and the night than we can ever know.
~ Sally Gardner