Quotes of: Nights Keyword

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

The Library at Night

What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

Live by Night

Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.

The Library at Night

That's your mom, right?" Pathik smiled. "She looks nicer than she did when she was dragging you away the other night.

The Line

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...

The Little Prince

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

The Little Silkworm

How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night.

Magic in the Backyard

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Ash) - About Nick

Seize the Night

Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.

The Sleeping Night

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined

Secrets of a Summer Night

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Shadow of Night

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one's arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights and the footing, tentative. farther, then, is the fall.

Starless Night

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Sleepless Nights

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN. We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

SPAN

I had to kill and eat my pet chicken. It was dinner for one, because the night before I killed and ate my grandpa.

Sleepwalking is restercise

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Son of the Shadows

Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up. 

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs.

Suttree

For my sustenance at night, the whole that my hands can glean from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks-- the herbs and the plenteous fruits...

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