#night

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#being #father #finding #him #his

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#did #eyes #front #having #know

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire. ↗

— David Copperfield

#down #dying #ever #fire #got

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. ↗

— Hernando Cortez

#lightest #night #safest #travels #who

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares. ↗

— John Cory

#eternity #fill #frantic #into #jammed

I had a mouse in my apartment and I couldn't sleep for two nights. I hate mice. They move so fast. ↗

— Matt Czuchry

#fast #had #hate #i #mice

Make a wish," said Indigo. Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?" "That's what I always do. Wish on the moving ones." "Does it matter how fast they move?" "I don't think so." "Can you wish on airplanes, too?" "Oh, yes. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#family #night #stars #wishing #family

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beautiful #choice #destiny #fate #fiction

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#barren #coming #darkness #day #drunkenness

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú