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“Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.”
― Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

“sometimes i wake up
in the middle
of the night
and find
poetry
splattered
all over my bed.”
― Sanober Khan

“Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.”
― Sanober Khan

“As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night’s velvet slippers

I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

“I have woken up…quite sloshed
from night-mingled rains
a little drugged, by mountain fogs
I have been kidnapped
for years....by a mere kiss.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

“May the nights always be aglow
with the bliss of the day
with unharmed hands and feet
and kissed cheeks.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

“There is something magical about the world at night. Sitting at the dining room table, sipping a glass of iced tea, I can totally understand why Dad gets up so early. Minutes seem to last longer when the rest of the world is asleep.”
― A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants

“the nights would be orphaned
without the sound of crickets chirping.”
― Sanober Khan

“But, along with the street lamp, everything breathes deceit. It lies all the time, this Nevsky Prospect, but most of all at the time when night heaves its dense mass upon it and sets off the white and pale yellow walls of the houses, when the whole city turns into a rumbling and brilliance, myriads of carriages tumble from the bridges, postillions shout and bounce on their horses, and the devil himself lights the lamps only so as to show everything not as it really looks.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

“Night is a time of terror. Worries and anxieties are unleashed by the darkness, when the distractions and the busyness of the day can no longer keep them at bay." Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly”
― Bill O'Reilly

“Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.”
― Joe Hill

“My name is Mina and I like the night. Everything is possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.”
― David Almond

“Things used to be so much easier.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“Nightly returning miracle, you turn to anarchy the strict rule of reason.”
― Nicola Lecca, Ritratto notturno (Farfalle)

“There can be great joy before the night.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“The middle of the night is just as advantageous as the middle of the day.”
― E.J. Mellow, Symphony for a Deadly Throne

“I place stars instead of hearts in my night sky - yet my hearts griefs the same.”
― Laura Chouette

“You choose darkness over light because one is the truth and one is the mask.”
― Dominic Riccitello