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Quotes About Twilight

The sunset of the forest had given the signal to robin and tanager to begin their vesper song. The sunset of the mount had issued the dew-time call that conjures out of the caves and hollow trees the smallest of the winged Brownie folk, whose kingdom is the twilight and whose dance hall is high above the tree-tops.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affections glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn
~ Bernard De Voto
Mrs MacFarley called the valley the Glen. She called the light at early evening the gloaming. She liked to go Roaming in the Gloaming in the Glen.
~ Beryl Bainbridge
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
~ Bill Watterson
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
~ Bill Watterson
After we shot the first 'Twilight,' we organized our own wrap party. We really didn't know what this was going to be. Something like that can come at you unexpectedly, and you just have to try your best to deal with it.
~ Anna Kendrick
I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.
~ Jhene Aiko
That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming.
~ Melissa Rosenberg
Within a few moments the last of day became the first of night, a magic as peculiar and welcome as any other.
~ Gregory Maguire
That's how summer is: no past or future but all present tense, long twilights like vandals, breaking into new days.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
My soul has been haunted by something like those forgotten melodies that come back to us at twilight, during those slow hours in which memory, like a ghost among ruins, stalks our thoughts.
~ Gustave Flaubert
A wood at night, or even more at twilight, can be a strange place. Fear begins to come more quickly in a wood, with darkness and twilight, than in any other place I know.
~ H.E. Bates
But the ship swept on, and the dusk hushed the hum of the day, and the first stars above blinked answers to the early fireflies on the banks as that jungle fell far behind, leaving only its fragrance as a memory that it had been.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Of the name and abode of this man but little is written, for they were of the waking world only; yet it is said that both were obscure. It is enough to know that he dwelt in a city of high walls where sterile twilight reigned, and that he toiled all day among shadow and turmoil, coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not on the fields and groves but on a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair. —Azathoth from Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It is enough to say that he dwelt in a city of high walls where sterile twilight reigned, that he toiled all day among shadow and turmoil, coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not to open fields and groves but on to a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
And in the twilight, as the stars came out one by one and the moon cast on the marsh a radiance like that which a child sees quivering on the floor as he is rocked to sleep at evening, there walked into the lethal quicksands a very old man in tattered purple, crowned with withered vine-leaves and gazing ahead as if upon the golden domes of a fair city where dreams are understood. That night something of youth and beauty died in the elder world.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Sometimes at twilight the grey vapours of the horizon have parted to grant me glimpses of the ways beyond;
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk.
~ Hannah Arendt
The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange.
~ Harlan Coben
An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Roamin' in the Gloamin'.
~ Sir Harry Lauder
Twi-moms! I love them, the little cougars!
~ Kellan Lutz
Because that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.
~ Justin Cronin