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Quotes About Night

She got quite upset and said that the night is a strawberry.
~ Louise Penny
Fear might stop some people from committing murder, but he knew for certain fear was what drove most people to kill. It was what nested below all the other emotions. It was what twisted and turned the other emotions into something sick. It was an alchemist and could turn daylight into night, joy into despair. Fear, once taken root, blocked the sun.
~ Louise Penny
Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?
~ Louise Rennison
The only way to tell if someone is a bodiless witch is by the deep wrinkle lines around her neck. At night when these witches go to sleep their heads separate from their bodies. Dragging their intestines along, they fly around to places where there's blood and death. The heads fly so fast that no one has ever seen the faces, only their shiny red eyes and sometimes the shadow of their heads and entrails. Once she finds a dead body, the bodiless witch nestles against the corpse all night.
~ Loung Ung
When night comes, the gods again taunt us with a radiant sunset. "Nothing should be this beautiful," I quietly say to Chou. "The gods are playing tricks on us. How could they be so cruel and still make the sky so lovely?". My words tug at my heart. It is unfair of the gods to show us beauty when I am in so much pain and anguish. "I want to destroy all the beautiful things.
~ Loung Ung
The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.
~ Lovecraft H P
Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.
~ Unknown
May the merciful gods, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.
~ Unknown
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour.
~ Unknown
When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And shout into the ridges of the wind. Streets coming fast, One after the other, Wedge you away from me, And the lamps of the city prick my eyes So that I can no longer see your face. Why should I leave you, To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?
~ Unknown
Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
~ Unknown
The moon. There's no other moon like one on a clear New Mexico night. It rises over the Sandias and soothes the miles and miles of barren desert with all the quiet whiteness of a first snow.
~ Unknown
En la profunda noche oscura del alma las licorerías y los bares están cerrados. (Del cuento Inmanejable)
~ Unknown
You get a peculiar outlook at night. You feel an oddity, and are quite content to be one.
~ Unknown
She stood eating soup in her overgrown garden, looking up at stars she could not name.
~ Lucy Ellmann
She didn't say she loved him then. She said it later that night, when he was breathing deeply beside her, the sleep of peace and satiety, as he always did when they'd released each other from passion by indulging it without limit. He slept heavily, so she could smooth his hair, kiss him without his knowing, and whisper the words she didn't know how to say when he heard her. "Tuscan Tycoon's Wife
~ Unknown
The Finns also have a rather lovely word for the aurora borealis: revontulet, which translates as 'foxfire'. The origins are supposedly in a Finnish fable, in which an Arctic fox, running through snow, sprayed up crystals with his tail, causing sparks to fly off into the night sky.
~ Unknown
is it like this every night, while we're asleep?
~ Jodi Picoult
This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon.
~ Jodi Picoult
Who knew that when you cut a slit in the belly of the night sky, it bled color?
~ Jodi Picoult
In the darkest crease of the night, I would love you until the moon lost its footing in the sky.
~ Jodi Picoult
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.
~ Jodi Picoult
In the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky.
~ Jodi Picoult
Kaip b?t? nuostabu, jei žvaigžd? nusileist? m?s? nam? kieme? Jei vien? ryt?, saulei patek?jus, j? rastume, gal?tume j? ?d?ti ? akvarium? ir naudoti kaip naktin? lempel?, o gal kaip nešiojam? turistin? žibint?..
~ Jodi Picoult