Quotes of: Single-night Keyword

As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

He kissed her forehead and drifted into an uneasy sleep, listening to the soft snoring of the creature on his chest, one he loved slightly more than he had come to fear.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

The Day Boy and the Night Girl

Wisdom's Way to Wonder? Yes, Your Majesty? Wiseoneder, What say you of days and nights? Days and nights, Your Majesty, appear to the bright to be filled with light; Light being dark way out of sight.

A Green Desert Father

If you can hear time passing it makes the day last longer. I've come to appreciate a long day.

The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.

Bared to You

If I look like I haven’t slept for eight hours, it’s because I haven’t. Oh, I wasn’t up all night. I slept 7:45 hours.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more?

Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

He was staring hard, not at his wife and me but at his daughter watching us. In his cold pupil, in the firm twist of his lips, was reflected Madame Miyagi's orgasm reflected in her daughter's gaze.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except marginally and by chance; therefore it deserves no interest at all, the true nature of things being revealed only in disintegration.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.

I wanderers