“My dreams and nightmares have the same people in them.”
“everyone knows it s not safe to go out on a brimstone night especially with you”
“If you want to make a healthy person become sickly, you sleep deprive them.”
“Mortals have always been frightened of the night s velvet embrace and the creatures that walk in it, and yet they find themselves mesmerized by it.”
“Believe in the night, it is magical. Nighttime awakens the core of the self where all of our demons that rest in daylight are up for us to tame.”
“It begins to rain. The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh, as though of relief from intolerable suspense. They are big as buckshot, warm as though fired from a gun; they sweep across the lantern in a vicious hissing. Pa lifts his face, slackmouthed, the wet black rim of snuff plastered close along the base of his gums; from behind his slack-faced astonishment he muses as though from beyond time, upon the ultimate outrage. Cash looks once at the sky, then at the lantern. The saw has not faltered, the running gleam of its pistoning edge unbroken. Get something to cover the lantern, he says.”
“At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing.”
“It was normal to drink two pots of coffee during an extreme night shift.”
“I would listen a thousand nights to a soul that s hurting but have not a second for those who destroy others because of their own pain.”
“Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head.”
“I have made a pact with the night, I have felt it softly healing me,”
“He attacks again, his sword a silvery fish darting through the sea of the night.”
“There’s something about a warm summer night where all the boundaries of the world seem to fall to the softness of moonlight and crickets. And with the astonishing expanse of the entire world having drawn within arm’s reach, I realize that nothing is so far from where I am that it can’t be affected by who I am.”
“night opens I enter night shuts I don t leave”
“The air is of silver and pearl, the night is liquid with moonlight.”
“If I could, I would apologize to the sky and my room ceiling for all of the nights I’ve awkwardly stared at them remembering things I should have forgotten.”
“Every morning, I get up to be mine and every night, I give up on myself as yours.”