“As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.”

“"Whom are you?" he said, for he had been to night school.”

George Ade (1866–1944) American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright

“I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

“No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court."
"Well, I'm not, he dumped me."
"You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court."
"Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

“One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“I came to you, Jane. Every night this week, I came to you. I didn't want you to be alone. And I didn't want to sleep without you." -Vishous”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

“A day without the sun is like you know, night”

Joe R. Lansdale (1951) American novelist, short story writer, martial arts instructor