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“My dreams and nightmares have the same people in them.”

— Jordan Hoechlin, Share via Whatsapp

“everyone knows it s not safe to go out on a brimstone night especially with you”

— Mary Flanagan, Ghost Sentence, Share via Whatsapp

“If you want to make a healthy person become sickly, you sleep deprive them.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“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.”

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Share via Whatsapp

“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.”

— Michael Lottner, Share via Whatsapp

“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.”

— William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Share via Whatsapp

“At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing.”

— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys, Share via Whatsapp

“It was normal to drink two pots of coffee during an extreme night shift.”

— Steven Magee, Share via Whatsapp

“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.”

— Nitya Prakash, Share via Whatsapp

“Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head.”

— Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls, Share via Whatsapp

“I have made a pact with the night, I have felt it softly healing me,”

— Aimé Césaire, The Collected Poetry, Share via Whatsapp

“He attacks again, his sword a silvery fish darting through the sea of the night.”

— Holly Black, The Wicked King, Share via Whatsapp

“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.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Share via Whatsapp

“night opens I enter night shuts I don t leave”

— Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems, Share via Whatsapp

“The air is of silver and pearl, the night is liquid with moonlight.”

— Willa Cather, The Collected Works of Willa Cather, Share via Whatsapp

“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.”

— Maxwell Diawuoh, Share via Whatsapp

“Every morning, I get up to be mine and every night, I give up on myself as yours.”

— Nitya Prakash, Share via Whatsapp