“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.”
“Night changed the streets. It dressed them in the mourning clothes named darkness, and applied the makeup called mystery.”
“Some night sounds outside my window remain strange & mysterious. Perhaps they are the sounds of the trees themselves, stretching their limbs in the dark, shifting a little, flexing their fingers, whispering to one another.”
“It was night, and the sky spreading into a rain that fell like darkness visible, a glistering where there was no light.”
“He stayed under the fluorescent street light until the sounds of traffic and nightlife faded into silence, and only then did he look up into the night sky, the way he usually did when he was looking for answers.”
“Somewhere in this insomniac night / my life is beginning / without me.”
“Tomorrow s a red flush in the western sky Tomorrow s a black hush in the middle night Tomorrow swears the truth of now, now, and now In the trembling blue gasp of the morning light”
“The same night, the same rain.”
“And I waited for the sun to rise - as it always had, like a song from the night.”
“Ever since I ve been broken, a thousand days and nights have slipped in between and yet it feels like it s just been a moment.”
“In later years it would sometimes happen that I’d wake up at night and see the stars so real in the sky and so meaningful in their course, and couldn’t understand how anyone could bring themselves to miss so much of the world.”
“Nightlife is filled with personal tragedies.”
“You get a peculiar outlook at night. You feel an oddity, and are quite content to be one.”