“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 132.
“Dawn comes before sleep does.”
— Suzanne Collins, book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
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