Quotes about evening
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“Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test… You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Life, Problem, Change

“Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Life

“There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.”

Elizabeth Peters The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Source: The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Pain

“A world without you is unknown to me. I don't even know if it exists.”

Kyōichi Katayama (1959) Japanese writer

Source: Socrates In Love

World

“Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

Time, Personality, Forgetting

“Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” George said. “Now that’s what I call a busy evening.”
Lockwood nodded. “To think some people just watch television.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Whispering Skull

Source: The Whispering Skull

People, Business, Thinking

“… mediocre people find their way into positions of authority… because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.”

Malcolm Gladwell book Blink

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

People, Way, Thinking, Decision

“He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Idea, Victory

“Know something? I'd lay even odds that between the people following us and the people hunting us, we've become this city's principle means of employment. Tal Verrar's entire economy is now based on.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

People

“It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Love, Learning, Time

“Does the giraffe know what he's for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Thinking

“Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Love, People, Feeling

“Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: Girl With Curious Hair

Love, Men, Hope

“Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/
as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.”

Kay Ryan (1945) American poet

Water

“And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Life, Pain, People

“There are moments in every girl’s life that are bigger than we know at the time. When you look back, you say, that was one of those life-changing,
fork-in-the-road moments and I didn’t even see it coming. I had no idea.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Life, Girl, Idea, Change

“I never thought… that someone liked me… not like a demon… not like a half-demon… not even like human… just like… just like me!" -Inuyasha”

Rumiko Takahashi (1957) manga artist

“Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.”

Pearl Cleage (1948) American novelist

Source: Just Wanna Testify

Life, Men, Problem, Time

“All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

Men, Freedom, Animals

“When I get free, I believe I'll show you your spine. I'll hand it to you so casually, politely even, as if expecting you to remark upon it.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?”

Stella Gibbons book Cold Comfort Farm

Source: Cold Comfort Farm

Intelligence

“And I remembered with a pang what had happened to me the previous summer - that even Gallagher Girls aren't always as strong as they need to be.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Girl, Strong, Summer

“Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.”

Junot Díaz book Drown

Source: Drown

“When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.”

Natasha Friend (1972) American writer

Source: Perfect

“Even death has a heart.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Death, Heart

“Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the
fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want”

Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary

Source: The Rum Diary

“You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.”

Poppy Z. Brite (1967) Novelist, short story writer, food writer

Source: Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories

“I don’t even know what to say to you. (Acheron)
Me, either. I guess we’ll just stand here and cry at each other, huh? (Kat)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Cry

“Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

Soul

“We're the same! Even Sonya says we are.
We've always been the same, and we're
both acting the same stupid way now! We
hold ourselves to higher standards than
everyone else.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Stupidity, Way

“We should be inspired by people… who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.”

Rachel Corrie (1979–2003) American anti-war and human rights activist

People, Beauty, Strong

“But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

God

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. … We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it.”

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist

Wilderness Letter http://wilderness.org/bios/former-council-members/wallace-stegner (1960) <br class="br">Source: The Sound of Mountain Water

People, Health, Books, World

“C'mon, Tabitha. You stabbed me the night we met without even blinking. (Valerius)
Yeah, but you were a dirtbag then. (Tabitha)
I think I'm offended. (Valerius)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Thinking, Night

“Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Way, Knowledge

“That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned

Source: Circus of the Damned

Teachers

“Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Shoe, Star, Sister

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.”

Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker

World, Parting

“Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)”

Bob Dylan book Chronicles: Volume One

Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1

“I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Life

“That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni book Sister of My Heart

Source: Sister of My Heart

Happiness, Heart

“You don't even live once.”

Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist

Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.”

Dan Simmons book The Terror

Source: The Terror

Books, Sense, Indecision

“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

World, Sex, Star

“You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Happiness, Age, Learning

“I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Love, Feeling, Imagination, Romantic

“When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Love, Feeling

“You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

Men, Fear

“I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Love, Guy

“Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Love, Time, Cry

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

Love

“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

Jane Yolen (1939) American speculative fiction and children's writer

Exercises

“Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Scandal in Spring

Reading

“Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.”

Suzanne Collins Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

Source: Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

“The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

Way, Idea, Thinking

“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Money

“Nick glowered at Ash. "Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew."

Ash laughed evilly. "Oh, absolutely, son. In fact, here come your new playmates now.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Home, Boy

“I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Love, Thinking, Forgetting

“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”

William Faulkner book Light in August

Source: Light in August

Fools

“This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on…”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Well, it's nice to have a dream. But it's even nicer when there's a remote possibility of it coming true.”

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Dreams

“Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.”

Clare B. Dunkle (1964) American writer

Sadness, Parting, Cry

“I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

Source: Come to Me

People, Feeling

“Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.”

Gail Tsukiyama (1957) American writer

Source: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Life, Color

“Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You

Idea, Thinking, Chance, Waiting

“It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Perfection

“Roman might have survived the Great Vampire War of 1710, but he was about to face an even worse terror.
A mortal female in full rage.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire

War, Rage

“Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Pain, Thinking, Rage, Madness

“What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Just Another Judgement Day

World, Lovers

“I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

Understanding, Time

“So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara)
No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Parting

“Marriage is about compromise, it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Jane Lewis, Chapter 8, p. 130
Source: 2000s, The Wedding (2003)

Marriage, Personality

“Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

"Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Collected Poems (1954)
Variant: We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
Context: We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.

Light

“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

Lie, Secret, Lying

“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Source: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657

Life, Men, Flying

“I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.”

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

Soul

“I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Faith, Way, Universe, Perseverance

“Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.”

Michael Crichton book Eaters of the Dead

Source: Eaters of the Dead

Beer

“‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?"

"No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of."

"Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

Source: The Complete Fairy Tales

World, Beauty, Thinking, Time

“[…]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Guy, Sun, Fight, Hurt

“When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

People, Beauty

“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Dreams, Nature, Thinking, Time

“You know the legend. Stab them in the heart and they’ll die. (Ravyn)
Call me Buffy. I’m even blond, but don’t ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset. (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Heart

“The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

Source: The Historian (2005), Ch. 9
Context: There is survival and survival, the historian learns to his grief. The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
Context: My dear and unfortunate successor:
I shall conclude my account as rapidly as possible, since you must draw from it vital information if we are both to — ah, to survive, at least, and to survive in a state of goodness and mercy. There is survival and survival, the historian learns to his grief. The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Effort