Quotes about evening
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“There were impressive stone paths and benches and even a statue of an angel that gave Simon nervous fits, since he was a Doctor Who fan. The angel wasn’t weeping, exactly, but it looked too depressed for Simon’s liking.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

Angels

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41

Thinking, Sleep, Night, Good Morning

“Even if I were lying on the sun itself, I would be freezing there without you. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Lying, Sun

“Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to."
"No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission."
"We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.”

Aaron Allston book Solo Command

Source: Solo Command

“I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Dreams

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

Maureen Dowd (1952) American journalist

“You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.”

Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

Food

“Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

“I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

People

“I am always sincere, ma petite, even when I lie." - Jean Claude”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Variant: I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.
Source: The Killing Dance

Lie, Sincerity

“The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Secret

“Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.”

Robin McKinley Chalice

Source: Chalice

Laughter

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer

Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

Imagination, Idea, Fashion

“It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer

Guy

“The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

Way

“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

The monster to Robert Walton in Ch. 24
Frankenstein (1818)

Love, Imagination, Fashion, Change

“The Valkyrie did not believe in coincidence, only fate. And sometimes fate didn't even bother being subtle.”

Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other

Source: A Hunger Like No Other

Fate

“‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.”

Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches

“That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Fools, Reading

“You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

Time

“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Memory

“and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed me, yes. But it was not just goodnight. Even then, I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Feeling, Kiss

“Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

World

“She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.”

John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)

Letter to A. Bronson (30 July 1838); a similar idea was later more famously expressed by Abraham Lincoln, "With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right".

Men

“Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Fate, Change

“Just remember… life without me would be even more unbearable.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Life

“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”

Aristophanés (-448–-386 BC) Athenian playwright of Old Comedy

Life, People, Law

“She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Variant: When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
Source: For One More Day

Time, Heart

“a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Source: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

“Even if you kill her, she'll still be alive-here." He tapped his chest. "In me. I keep her here. She's part of me. So until you kill me, you can't really kill her. And you can't win. It's that simple.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

Parting

“Why do you even put up with me?'
'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Charmed Thirds

Love

“The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Variant: Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back to the way they were. If one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Truth, Sadness, Way

“Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.”

Tony Kushner The Illusion

Source: The Illusion

Love, World

“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.”

Elena Ferrante book The Days of Abandonment

Source: The Days of Abandonment

Past

“That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Learning, Passion, Back To Work

“Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

Life, Way

“I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Variant: I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.
Source: House of Leaves

Feeling

“Nothing ever happened - Not even this”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

“You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Parting

“A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.”

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer

Age, Thinking

“We're going to be okay."

Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Secret

“I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

Hope

“I don’t know how you do it. You aren’t even blond. I mean, maybe a little, but mostly you’re a brunette. I just don’t see guys going for that.”

“Yeah, well, some people are into kinky stuff, I guess.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Heat

People, Guy

“Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.”

Judith Lewis Herman (1942) American psychiatrist

Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

People, Time

“My life is perfect even when it's not.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Life, Perfection

“I'm a fan of the truth… even if it's painfully hard to accept.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Truth

“I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Variant: I just want to let you know that I love you all. Even those of you that I don't like; that's you Beryl.
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Love

“There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.”

Angela Carter book Wise Children

Source: Wise Children

Past, Housing

“A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

God, Sense, Evil, Perfection

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter X, Part II, p. 152.
Context: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.

People

“If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.”

Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

Love

“And you don't care that I'm your brother," he said. "I know how you felt about Jace, even when you thought he was your brother. You can't lie to me."

"Jace is better than you."

"No one's better than me.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Lie

“A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.”

Margaret Weis (1948) American fantasy novelist

“If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Game

“I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Pain, Pleasure, Smile, Tear

“Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949) edited by Paul A. Schilpp
1940s
Variant: Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Country

“Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

Game

“Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”

Tim O'Reilly (1954) Irish computer programmer

World

“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I’m tired of not knowing who I’ll be with, or if I’ll be
with anyone.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love

“Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

World, Sense, Time

“Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Beauty

“I dread no more the first white in my hair,
Or even age itself, the easy shoe,
The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:
Time, doing this to me, may alter too
My anguish, into something I can bear”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Age, Shoe, Time

“For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn

Source: Tropic of Capricorn

Time

“I'd never been turned on by the Ken doll—even before I looked down his pants and saw what was missing.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.”

Richard Dawkins book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Falseness

“It’s still a memory worth having, even if it’s not exactly what you imagined”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Variant: It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.
Source: Along for the Ride

Imagination, Memory

“I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.”

Tove Jansson (1914–2001) Finnish children's writer and illustrator

Source: Art in Nature

“We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Diplomatic Immunity

Source: Diplomatic Immunity

Beauty, Chance

“This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Love, Death

“You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Source: The Success Journey: The Process of Living Your Dreams

Attitude

“He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

Sense, Time

“I secretly wondered if Dimitri's problem might be that he was jealous. He hadn't pulled Lissa aside to yell at her. The thought made me slightly happy, but then I remembered my earlier curiosity about why Dimitri had even wandered by.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Happiness, Problem

“Secret Notes:
He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born, he said, but we live in a strange neighborhood & they will need help figuring things out & I won't always be around to explain it to them.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

People, Secret, Help

“His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

Cordelia's Honor (1996), "Author's Afterword"

Feeling, Dead

“It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

God

“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Source: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

Way