#night

I guess it's hard, being apart all the time." "It really is. If Lucas were still here, everything would be different." Vic's smile turned smug. "Yeah, I'd have a roommate who could beat me at chess instead of the other way around." Ranulf never looked up from the chessboard. "I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory." "Keep dreaming," Vic called. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#claudia-gray #evernight-series #lucas #stargazer #vic

Uh, do you mind?" I glanced down and saw something far scarier than any demon. A guy. My age. And I was on top of him. Straddling his hips. Oh, jeez. ↗

— A&E Kirk

#age

It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was itself under a spell--so unnaturally, up and down the whole prospect of known and rather ugly objects, the blankness and the silence lasted. Had they ever, he asked himself, the hard-faced houses, which had begun to look livid in the dim dawn, had they ever spoken so little to any need of his spirit? Great builded voids, great crowded stillnesses put on, often, in the heart of cities, for the small hours, a sort of sinister mask, and it was of this large collective negation that Brydon presently became conscious--all the more that the break of day was, almost incredibly, now at hand, proving to him what night he had made of it. ↗

— Henry James

#city-at-night #age

With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older. ↗

— Amanda L. Moritz

#quote #age

People die . . . so love them every day. Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone. Love changes . . . but not the love you give. And if you love, you'll never be alone. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#beauty

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#disappointment #night #time #change

It's stupid, I know. I have this thing, this idea. This bullshit 'Mr. Darcy' idea, about the one that changes his mind. That comes back for me. And I'll look up some night, and he'll be there in front of me. And he'll stare at me and say, "It was you. It was always you. ↗

— Chloe Neill

#change

I personally think the downside of being able to change into anything is the fear that you don't know who you really are. ↗

— C.C. Hunter

#change

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#erin-morgenstern #marco-celia #the-night-circus #change

Then, suddenly, I remembered the accident, and Edwart's snow-proof body, and his eyes that changed from I-don't-remember to green, and I knew. ↗

— The Harvard Lampoon

#change