Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.
Dean KoontzTags: stars darkness possibilities koontz midnight
No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.
Sister SouljahPeople fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.
Elizabeth ChandlerTags: people quotes normal elizabeth-chandler midnight dark-secrets the-back-door-of-midnight
These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark house, trying to be quiet. Like a robbery in reverse, creeping around to leave something rather than take it.
Sarah DessenTags: dark quiet irony robbery reverse midnight
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
Charles DickensTags: heroes babies birth coincidence clocks midnight famous-beginnings
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
AberjhaniTags: poetry inspiration language light metaphors poets blossoms poem-in-your-pocket-day gardens dawn national-poetry-month famous-quotes world-poetry-day literary-inspiration quotes-about-poets midnight savannah-authors-and-poets
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...
Arundhati RoyTags: flowers beautiful midnight
There is no night porter wandering about in King's. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a grown-up. And since we are not grown-up you and I, we will perform our midnight frolics as the inmates burn the midnight oil.
WhipplesnaithTags: growing-up maturity authority midnight
Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!
Nadia ScrievaTags: world water black ocean color midnight
No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.
Robert McKeeTags: talent soul quality effort midnight
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