“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.”

“The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?”

John Fowles book The Magus

“On 11 November 1997, Veronika decided that the moment to kill herself had — at last!”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“On the radio
We heard November Rain
That solo's awful long
But it's a good refrain”

Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

“It is come—the last day and inevitable hour for Troy.”
Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus Dardaniae.

Virgil book Aeneid

“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

“Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

“Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.”

Scott Snyder (1976) American writer