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Quotes About Night

Our forecastle, as usual after a liberty-day, was a scene of tumult all night long, from the drunken ones. They had just got to sleep toward morning, when they were turned up with the rest, and kept at work all day in the water, carrying hides, their heads aching so that they could hardly stand. This is sailor's pleasure.
~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.
window. All the ruckus, of course, woke up everyone in the house. Lilly's room was right up there. She
~ Richard Laymon
Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.
~ Richard Llewellyn
I had slept nothing all night, making ghosts for myself, filling my mind with them and giving myself pale frights. All the ghosts had a different punishment for me, some of them shocking indeed.
~ Richard Llewellyn
I was thinking it's going to be cold again tonight. We may need to zip the bags together. I'm down with that. Every star in the galaxy rolls out above them, through the blue-black needles, in a river of spilled milk. The night sky- the best drug there was, before people came together into something stronger. They zip the bags together. You know, she says, if one of us falls, the other is going with. I'll follow you anywhere.
~ Richard Powers
Soon his eyes close on their own accord, and he's swept back into sleep, that nightly place of plantlike deliverance.
~ Richard Powers
He nodded in the dark, confirmed. His hand waved a question across the sky. Stars everywhere. More than we can count? So why isn't the night sky full of light? His slow, sad words stiffened the hairs up and down my body. My son had rediscovered Olbers' paradox.
~ Richard Powers
I wouldn't turn away . . . but having made all those calculations, I thought the blast might be rather bigger than expected. So I put on some suntan lotion."2421 Teller passed the lotion around and the strange prophylaxis disturbed one observer: "It was an eerie sight to see a number of our highest-ranking scientists seriously rubbing sunburn lotion on their faces and hands in the pitch-blackness of the night, twenty miles from the expected flash.
~ Richard Rhodes
At three in the morning Main Street was so quiet that Dallas could hear the street light change from red to green a block away. There was nothing sadder and lonelier in the world, he decided, especially when you were all alone when it happened.
~ Richard Russo
If the stars twinkled more than usual on any given night, it meant that the angels in heaven were happy and were flitting across the doors of heaven; and since stars were merely holes ventilating heaven, the twinkling came from the angels flitting past the holes that admitted air into the holy home of God.
~ Richard Wright
176 Winter rain at night Sweetening the taste of bread And spicing the soup.
~ Richard Wright
And the drugstore next door to the museum? People who work there say they've heard moaning at night in one of those storage rooms on the second floor." The boys traded glances. "And this moaning," Parker said, straight-faced, "did it come before or after the guy was stabbed?
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Driving home after her first night course at San Francisco State University, Iris was adrift in the darkness. She rarely travelled this far south in the city.
~ Rick Mofina
You drool when you sleep.
~ Rick Riordan
Stars, she whispered. I can see the stars again, my lady. A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight. Stars, Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.
~ Rick Riordan
Shut up, me," Leo said aloud. "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool." Sitting in front, Leo couldn't see their faces, but he assumed from their silence that his friends were not pleased to have a sleepless, hallucinating dragon driver. "Just joking." Leo decided it might be good to change the subject.
~ Rick Riordan
Bob says hello, He told the stars. The Argo II sailed into the night.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k... She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. You know what I mean!
~ Rick Riordan
As his raft skimmed over the water, taking him back to the mortal world, he understood a line from the Prophecy better- an oath to keep with a final breath . He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. I'm coming back for you, Calypso, he said to the night wind. I swear it on the River Styx.
~ Rick Riordan
I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.
~ Rick Riordan
Shut up, me Leo said out loud. What? Piper asked. Nothing, he said. Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool.
~ Rick Riordan
I can see the stars again m'lady.
~ Rick Riordan
You drool in your sleep.
~ Rick Riordan
As you can imagine, they got along great, though how they got any sleep with Hyperion glowing all night and Theia giggling, "Shiny! Shiny!" I don't know.
~ Rick Riordan