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Quotes About Twilight

Dusk—of a summer night.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Give me a Twilight moment, make me all shimmery, too?
~ Karen Marie Moning
The great uncertainty of all data in war is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently—like the effect of a fog or moonshine—gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.
~ Karl Von Clausewitz
What do they sing, the last birds coasting down the twilight, banking across woods filled with darkness, their frayed wings curved on the world like a lover's arms which form, night after night, in sleep, an irremediable absence?
~ Galway Kinnell
Seasons have built our lives hour by hour in the twilight of long, darkening commutes, and we arrive home too tired to speak of love and this we say only with a goodnight kiss.
~ Bruce Meyer
During the period of the shortest, sleepy days of winter that are demarcated from morning and evening on both sides by furry edges of twilight, when the city branches out ever more deeply into the labyrinths of the winter nights and is summoned back by a brief dawn to reflection, to a return home, my father was already lost, sold, sworn to that other sphere.
~ Bruno Schulz
En el interior afectaban el alma, especialmente cuando llegaban las horas calladas y suaves del ocaso; entonces, la memoria formaba sus cristales igual que el claro hielo suele formarse de crepúsculo sin ruido.
~ Herman Melville
Il est des soirs de printemps dont le crépuscule outrepasse les limites que lui prescrit l'astronomie.
~ Hermann Broch
His descent was like nightfall.
~ Homer
Was it the Twilight of Magic? Perhaps. But only today's. Magic could never die while the sun had the power to rise again and man had the wish to seek.
~ Hugh Lofting
In the evening darkness doesn't really fall, it rises. When
~ Ian Fleming
Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Pochyleni w wysokich siodÅ'ach swych quorlów Czarni Moranthowie lÅ›nili niczym Å›liskie od krwi diamenty w karmazynowym blasku cienkiej jak miecz smugi jutrzenki.
~ Steven Erikson
It is Tuesday, near dusk. Night creeps in and strips colors from the scene. Everything is purplish. There have been many Tuesdays in the Minotaur's life. He wonders how this one will end.
~ Steven Sherrill
The sky was dark, the moon occluded by clouds, yet they could see through the spectral twilight as if every rock and grain of sand exuded its own sick light.
~ Storm Constantine
Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red....
~ Susan Coolidge
Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.
~ Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
The country of the souls is underneath us, toward the sunset; the trail leads through a dim twilight. Tracks of the people who last went over it and of their dogs are visible.
~ Mircea Eliade
And so in this twilight and evening of the world, when sin is flourishing on every side and in every place, when charity is growing cold, the evil of witches and their iniquities superabound
~ Montague Summers
At a guess I see that you may indeed be he: the light silver dew brings to clothe in loveliness a twilight beauty flower.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
?itava se Barcelona prostirala meni pod nogama i želio sam vjerovati da ?e mi kad otvorim te svoje nove prozore njezine ulice u sumrak šaputati na uho pri?e i tajne kako bih ih uhvatio na papir i ispri?ao onima koji ih žele slušati.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Suddenly, she jumped up and waved frantically toward the boat vanishing in the twilight. Dark thirty? She doubted Cap'n would even remember he had brought them, much less to pick them up. And no one, no one knew they were here on this uninhabited island in the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Cap'n, come back! she cried. Her words were lost in the threatening wind. But he just waved, and she figured he thought she was waving good-bye. And she probably was—forever.
~ Carole Marsh
The entire reason is gone, like the old-time writers who at some point found that very few people, if any, actually practiced reading anymore. But at least those writers had time, the change happening over many decades, until readers became rare enough that they were believed to be nearly extinct, like some twitchy, sensitive creatures who lingered in the twilight brush.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Not since the dark days of the Twilight franchise had it been so trendy to be dead.
~ Charlaine Harris