Quotes about evening
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“Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime.
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

Marguerite Duras book The Malady of Death

Source: The Malady of Death

Love, Way, Night

“I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Source: Role Models

Hate, Fear, Imagination, Evil

“She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.”

Anne Ursu (1900) American writer

Source: Breadcrumbs

Lie, Beauty

“most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Wilson Lewis, Epilogue, p. 262-263
Variant: But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there’s been a lifetime of disappointment between them.
Source: 2000s, The Wedding (2003)
Context: The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.

Love, People, Disappointment, Learning

“There are in life a few moments so beautiful, that even words are a sort of profanity.”

Diana Palmer (1946) American romance novelist

Life, Beauty

“I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Source: Gates of Paradise

Love

“As long as skies are blue, and fields are green,
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XXI
Adonais (1821)

Night

“A book had always been a door to another world… a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.

And that love could fill the real world with magic.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Scandal in Spring

Love, Life, Books, World

“With you i found myself.
You are the one i was waiting for, when i didn't even realize i was waiting.
-dr. Emma Sinclair”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Instant Gratification

Waiting

“I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Thinking, Sense

“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

“It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Night Road

Love, School

“To Thetis,
Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that.
-Seth”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Truth, Thinking, Patience

“He was proud of his "hometown" goddess, even if he hadn't found his one true pairing (OTP) yet.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“… surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity..”

William Faulkner book Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!

God, Madness

“I was out for stars;
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked;
And I hadn't been.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

" Come In http://plagiarist.com/poetry/691" (1942), st. 4, 5 General sources Source: The Poetry of Robert Frost Context: p>Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went — Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament.But no, I was out for stars; I would not come in. I meant not even if asked; And I hadn't been.</p

Star

“We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.”

Jenny Colgan (1972) British writer

Life

“But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.”

Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl

Source: Artemis Fowl

Heart

“Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. But I gave myself up to it; it was an antidote to any pain, and I had more pains than one.”

Henry James book The Turn of the Screw

Source: The Turn of the Screw

Pain, Time, Parting

“Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner

Forgetting

“Some problems even duct tape couldn't solve.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

The Blood of Olympus

Problem

“The most Beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

People, Beauty, Sex

“Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Life, Animals

“(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

W [ViVa] (1931) LVII

Understanding

“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Love, Life, People

“The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.”

John Stuart Mill book On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

Feeling, Exercises

“I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Kiss, Flying

“I pray. I go to mass. I even remember to respect my elders and help little old ladies across the street. What the hell did I do to deserve this?”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Wild Card

Hell, Help

“I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden

Death, Time, Help

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Beauty, Personality, Missing You, Good Night

“So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail

“The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.”

Ismail Kadare book Chronicle in Stone

Source: Chronicle in Stone

“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”

Seth Grahame-Smith (1976) US fiction author

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Men, History

“The coach could do a goat-hoof tap dance around Nico’s head and the son of Hades wouldn’t even budge.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Dance

“Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

“It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because… you are always me.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Love, Life, Question

“Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

Source: The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book

Love, People

“I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human—I only love to be so.”

Zadie Smith (1975) British writer

Love, Parting

“But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

World

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”

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

Variant: People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood.
Source: The Journals of Kierkegaard

People, Understanding

“Even when we're apart, we'll be looking at the same sky!”

L.J. Smith book Daughters of Darkness

Source: Daughters of Darkness

“Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.”

Jane Yolen book Briar Rose

Source: Briar Rose

Truth

“Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.”

Vikas Swarup (1961) Indian novelist and diplomat

Source: Al Milyūnayr Al Mutasharrad =Slumdog Millionaire

World, Forgetting

“We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Smile

“I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Thinking

“We’re so screwed. (Cassandra)
Yeah, well, I don’t let anyone screw me until they kiss me, and since there’s not even a snowball’s chance in hell of me kissing that bastard, we’re not screwed. (Wulf)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Hell, Kiss, Chance

“Just because life is hard and always ends in a bad way doesn't mean that all stories have to. Even if that's what they tell us in school and the New York Book Review.”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

Life, Books, School, Way

“Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Bee, Flying

“What a nice night for an evening.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Night

“And sure enough, even waiting will end… if you can just wait long enough.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Waiting

“But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.”

Pat Conroy book The Prince of Tides

Source: The Prince of Tides

Beauty

“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Life, World, Time

“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Truth, Heart, Forgetting

“You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Women

“You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.”

Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher

“Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

People, Time

“I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Home, Perfection

“Take a leap of faith and see that these troubled waters have no power over you unless you give it to them, and even then they lie.”

Ted Dekker (1962) American writer

Source: Water Walker: The Full Story

Lie, Faith, Water

“Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)”

Victoria Moran (1950) American writer

Source: Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

Moms

“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”

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

Flowers, Bird, Tree, Help

“I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.”

Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer

Source: If You Come Softly

Life, Thinking, Time, Personality

“When they made up, it was as if nothing had happened at all. In fact, it was like they were stuck even closer together, like they had gotten even more tangled in each other.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

“If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Horse

“Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) French writer and film director

Women, Men, Country

“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

World

“However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Nature, Decision

“Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Life, Coffee

“All things are possible until they are proved impossible — and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

A Bridge for Passing (1962)

“He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

Forgiveness

“I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Parting

“I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Fear, Rage, Despair

“Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Thousand Cranes

Source: Thousand Cranes

Fate, Thinking, Decision

“Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Love

“I know that sounds weird, but it's hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,"- Greg”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: A Quick Bite

Guy

“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Life, Time

“He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Confidence, Personality

“You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

“It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Nature

“There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.”

Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Love, Dreams

“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Love, Singing, Joy

“There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner (2003), Ch. 2
Context: Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words.Mine was Baba.His was Amir. My name.Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975—and all that followed—was already laid in those first words (11).

People, Time

“We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Sandman Slim