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Quotes About Night

Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.
~ Tove Jansson
It's now six a.m. and I'm smoking. Oh yeah, Tracey: it's all going so fucking well. The lonely princess. Carbon monoxide is feeding my soul.
~ Tracey Emin
Leaning forward, he dusted a kiss over her lips, his touch light and sensuous. Her eyes closed, wonder and delight shimmering through her like faerie dust- dreams wrapping her in their silken hold. "You love me, Grace." His mouth brushed against hers. "That's what you said last night. You meant it, did you not?" Her eyes opened, locking on his. "Yes, I meant it," she said in a hushed tone. "Of course, I love you.
~ Unknown
More than five and a half hours of sleep during the day will throw the three-hour routine off kilter and cause a baby to stay up all night.
~ Tracy Hogg
They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
The night was black, the owl did call. I stood upon the silo tall, Never suspecting I would fall . . . Thanks to the boy who bumped me. Though frightened, I had stayed alert. No thoughtless slumberings did divert Me from my task, till I got hurt . . . Thanks to the boy who bumped me.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
felt increasingly bleary as a result of his late-night visits to the library. He could not help creeping downstairs to read each night, though. The temptation was too strong
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
She started awake from a dream in which their cave had collapsed and was slowly crushing her to death, and discovered that Clay had rolled over on top of her in the middle of the night.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
At night, without the distant hint of sunlight, the room felt colder and more hollow. Clay stretched up and sniffed at the darkness that had fallen on the other side of the hole. He thought it smelled like stars.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
He never had smoke rising from his nostrils the way the dragons flying overhead did. He never sneezed out bursts of flame (although he did sneeze quite a lot for a while after his time in the river). He never even breathed heat, not even on the coldest nights when they both really needed it.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
awake from a dream in which their cave had collapsed and was slowly crushing her to death, and discovered that Clay had rolled over on top of her in the middle of the night.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I hatched on an island of smoke and fire, under a volcano that breathed death all day and hid the stars and the three moons at night.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Moon!" he sang happily as he saw her approaching. "Moon moon moon mooooon pies.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
This nightmare was far worse than the one she usually had.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
because Diamond was acting like she knew all about his secret romance tonight. Whether she really does know or not, he'll find it easy to imagine that she might kill his dear moon-eyed truly beloved out of vengeance or spite." "Or to make sure she's out of his life forever." Snowflake nodded.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The brighter the moons were, the more wide-awake Deathbringer felt.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
you were the only NightWing dragonet who hatched on the brightest night. My egg hatched a couple of months later, here, actually. I have this really vague memory of fire and rough scales rubbing my back. I didn't remember that until I smelled
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Deathbringer had found his night vision growing stronger the longer he was away from the Night Kingdom.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Tell him Keiko likes running in the woods at night, ripping the heads off of birds, and hypnotizing dopey middle schoolers into doing anything she wants," Zoe said.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
uno sonno la patata.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.
~ Unknown
That is not the Dryad. It has three masts.' 'There is no concealing anything from the Doctor,' said Jack, and turning directly to him he went on, 'Give you joy of our prize: we took her in the night.' 'Breakfast is disgracefully late,' said Stephen.
~ Patrick O'Brian
The moon's tip appeared above the sea. A gunboat fired: deep, booming note – the voice of an old solitary hound.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Sunset is such a sad hour," she said, presently. "If I watch the end of a day—any day—I always feel it's the end of a whole epoch. And the autumn! It might as well be the end of everything," he said. "That's why I hate cold countries, and love the warm ones, where there's no winter, and when night comes you feel an opening up of the life there, instead of a closing down. Don't you feel that?
~ Paul Bowles