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Quotes About Twilight

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.
~ Anna Todd
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
~ Kate Chopin
Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.
~ Samuel Johnson
Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
the evening wasn't a cold one, but it was starting to get dark and there was a sharp-edged, fidgety breeze prowling the garden, with no plants or long grass to soften it, tugging at branches and jabbing its way into corners.
~ Tana French
Only in love is there a real springtime, she would sadly reflect. Only love makes us immortal and immune to living; only in love is there youth and hope. Without it, we are blasted trees in an ashy forest where nothing moves or has a significant being, and where there is no sunset and no rising of the sun, but only a smoky twilight.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse ' the three of them are physically together.
~ Taylor Lautner
At the base of the immense pillar, tiny Babylon was in shadow. Then the darkness climbed the tower, like a canopy unfurling upward. It moved slowly enough that Hillalum felt he could count the moments passing, but then it grew faster as it approached, until it raced past them faster than he could blink, and they were in twilight... For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky.
~ Ted Chiang
This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness....
~ Ted Kooser
But it was a twilight sleep, semiconscious and mindful for a few minutes at a time, until his thoughts would lose coherence and stray into blurry wisps that were to real dreams as cobwebs are to spiderwebs.
~ Neal Stephenson
In your eyes the flames of twilight fought on. And the leaves fell on the water of your soul.
~ Neruda, Pablo
Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling...
~ Victor Hugo
Il crepuscolo piace solo ai pipistrelli.
~ Victor Hugo
Melancholy is a twilight. Suffering melts into it in sombre joy.
~ Victor Hugo
The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
~ Victor Hugo
Perhaps she'll find that real darkness is more to her taste than feeble twilight.
~ L.J. Smith
One from the land of kings long forgotten; One from the hearth which still holds the spark; One from the Day World where two eyes are watching; One from the twilight to be one with the dark.
~ L.J. Smith
Then again she wept aloud,– so bitterly that the voice of her crying pierced into the marrow of the listener's bones; – and she sobbed out the words of this poem:– Hi kurureba Sasoeshi mono wo – Akanuma no Makomo no kure no Hitori-ne zo uki! ("At the coming of twilight I invited him to return with me –! Now to sleep alone in the shadow of the rushes of Akanuma – ah! what misery unspeakable!")
~ Lafcado Hearn
of night crowded into the slanting places beyond the reach of the dawn.
~ Laini Taylor
from the Usko Remarroth, where it was ever twilight—blue.
~ Laini Taylor
Does Bhisma care about women and their fate? Do all women have to be fierce warriors and die like men, as Rosa Luxemburg did, to earn his respect? Does he care about the mountains, behind which every day the sun rises and sets, about life on the side of the road, about the color of twilight in certain clear afternoons, so beautiful it is almost unendurable?
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.
~ Catharine Maria Sedgwick
And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight,
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It got late, very early.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio