Quotes About Night

Tonight is when the obscene becomes the acceptable.

I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed." --Lola

Night had fallen, and the first stars had winked their way into existence, twinkling against a palette of inky purples, deep reds, and one last slice of pearly, light-infused blue.

would be "captured and killed" that very night.

Late that night, Concepción stirred with life. The captain, Quesada, lowered himself into a longboat

Under cover of darkness, they boarded San Antonio and rushed to the captain's cabin

stranding the six seamen on the little island. They passed a wretched night

They had settled next to the creatures to find shelter from the violent storm and enough warmth to sustain them through the night.

The blackness of night is an essential quality of the Divine Feminine. The "black cloak" of Muhammad is very famous. The Sûfîs sing about kali kamaliya vala (the one wrapped in the black blanket) in their qawwalis (spiritual songs). Muhammad's prayer rug was also black, as was the first flag of Islam.

The night is the exemplification of our sovereign Fatima, especially the "Night of Destiny" (laylat al-Qadr).

The Hidden Light of the Night softens the wheat and the fruit, making it sweet.

She drove on into the night, homeward, her hair weeping tiny slow streams down her back.

She had never seen an adult cry like that, with such an animal sound. Recklessly. As if there were nothing more to be lost. For years afterward, she would sometimes wake in the night, heart thumping, thinking she'd heard that agonized cry again.

Have a good night,' he said, and Mia stepped out onto Fifth Avenue and let the city swallow her up.

the night before? He had been away four whole

At bedtime, Nath and Lydia brushed their teeth sociably at the sink, taking turns to spit, saying goodnight as if it were any other night. It was too big to talk about, what had happened. It was like a landscape they could not see all at once; it was like the sky at night, which turned and turned so they couldn't find its edges. It would always feel too big. He pushed her in. And then he pushed her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.

Above her the moon was coin-round, sharp and perfect. Beneath her the boat rocked so gently that she could hardly feel it's motion. Looking up at the sky, she felt as if she were floating in space, completely untethered. She could not believe that anything was impossible.

Come ha fatto a trovarmi? - gli dissi ridendo. - Non è nulla. Ho aspettato. - Tutta la notte. - Tutto l'inverno.

Qué curioso! Turín es más grande de noche que de día.

The villages he'd played in were all around us, bright and leafy in the sunshine, nests of stars in the night sky.

L'idea di passare un'altra notte bianca mi atterrì.

The sea of night was at low tide. That dreaded zone where the worst that has happened to you resurfaces to assail you once again and drag you to the bottom.

Life begins at night

When darkness came Sergeant