Quotes about evening
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“They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational.. even the inexcusable.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

Love

“A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love

“I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

“You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Variant: Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength.

“I guess we're even, Sadie. First, Walt and I rushed off to save you in London. Then, you and Walt rushed off to save me. The only one who got shafted on both deals was Walt. Poor guy gets hauled all over the world pulling us out of trouble”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

World, Guy

“Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.”

Georges Bernanos book The Diary of a Country Priest

The Diary of a Country Priest

“Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

World, Time

“I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings…”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Painting

“Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Source: The Palace of Illusions

Waiting, Summer

“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 25, Transit Completed at Movie Theater, On to The Dolphin Hotel
Context: "Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment," she said, thrusting a skinny back of her hand before my eyes, "most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”

James Stephens book The Crock of Gold

The Crock of Gold (Charleston: BiblioBazaar, [1912] 2006) p. 13.

Fear, Courageous

“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book Three: All Hail and Hallelujah

People, Change, Time, Perfection

“Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.”

Erin Gruwell book The Freedom Writers Diary

Source: The Freedom Writers Diary

People, Future

“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

Time, Heart

“Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!”

George Gordon Byron book The Bride of Abydos

Canto II, stanza 20.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)

Life, Smile

“Why did you come if not to murder my king?"
"I came to steal his magus."
"You can't," said the magus in question.
"I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

Question

“Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.”

Richard Dawkins book A Devil's Chaplain

Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

Education

“To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

Life, Personality

“The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.”

Nick Hornby book Juliet, Naked

Source: Juliet, Naked

Life, Truth

“If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

Love, Lie, Drink

“I will protect even those I hate,” Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. “So long as it is right.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Hate

“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Books

“The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

“I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Business

“The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.”

Fannie Flagg (1944) American actress, comedian and author

Source: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

Life, Behavior

“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”

Lynn Kurland (2000) American writer

Source: Spellweaver

Beauty, Imagination, Tree

“Even when there were no more options for the body, the heart's wishes find a way out, and as with all warmth, love rises. Besides, the will to fly was in the nature of the soul, so its home had to be up above”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

Love, Way, Home, Soul

“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.”

William Faulkner book The Town

Source: The Town

Love, Strong

“No animal, according to the rules of animal etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 4, "Mr. Badger"

Winter, Animals, Season

“I don't care," said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me… I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other… even if we aren't together.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Heat

Soul

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Pain

“There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Happiness, Dead

“Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Life, Question

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

Girl, Princess

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Pain, Laughter

“A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.”

Sigmund Freud Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Source: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Love, Religion

“Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is an even better feelin. A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other will be there for you forever no matter what.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Love, Feeling, Understanding

“That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Women, Tattoo, Perfection

“Look, he isn’t even concerned.”
I poured the tea. “He’s concerned, Mother. He just doesn’t panic, because he’s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.”
“I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like,” Jim offered.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Dreams

Tea

“Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Way, Feeling, Kiss

“Even though we are each our own person… we're connected through the same dream! We are Seigaku!”

Takeshi Konomi (1970) Japanese manga artist

Dreams, Personality

“A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Learning

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

“… nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Star, Joy

“Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.”

Elizabeth Peters The Hippopotamus Pool

Source: The Hippopotamus Pool

“Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

Source: I. Asimov

Life, Business

“So what’s your favorite Synism? (Kiara)
Duwad. (Nykyrian)
Which means? (Kiara)
You’re not old enough for me to answer that. Hell, I’m not even old enough to say it. (Nykyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Hell

“… if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened… but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

People, Dead

“Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Life, Idea, Fight

“You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“The god’s expression was calm and content, as if he’d just come home from a lovely evening strolling through the Fields of Punishment, enjoying the screams of the damned.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Love, God, Home

“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

Imagination, Childhood, Personality

“But you’re human, aren’t you? (Kat)
I’m human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don’t want to be around myself then. (Kish)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

“We get used to living one way, even if it's a bad way or a hard one. When that's gone, there's a hole to fill. It's in our nature to try to fill it with anxieties and fears. It can take time to fill it with good things instead.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Fear, Way, Nature, Time

“You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnSouled

People

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful graces of God.”

William Kent Krueger book Ordinary Grace

Source: Ordinary Grace

Wisdom, God, Pain, Sleep

“Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, “Wyrd biõ ful ãræd.”

Bernard Cornwell book The Last Kingdom

Source: The Last Kingdom

“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

Love, Way

“Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

“Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.”

Darren Shan book Sons of Destiny

Source: Sons of Destiny

“Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

World, Time

“There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Men

“There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Hunger, Truth, Search

“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Music, Feeling, Dance

“Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Time

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

Love, People

“But Thierry was shaking his head. "It doesn't matter." His voice was still quiet, but it was filled with the authority of absolute conviction, a kind of bedrock certainty that held even Hannah mesmerized.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

“We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“Half of these aren't even Machiavelli.
Some are Plato, Thucydides etc…. doesnt anyone check these?”

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author

“Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

World, Imagination

“But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.”

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

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Water

“Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

Life, God, Question, Anger

“They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.”

Isaac Asimov book Pebble in the Sky

Source: Pebble in the Sky

Truth, Change, Past

“I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Heart of the Matter

Life, Marriage, Happiness, Way

“you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.'
'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening… like a light in the midst of the darkness.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Thinking, Light, Heart, Painting

“Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Girl

“She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Life, Hostility, Smile

“Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

“Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That’s even worse than water boy.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Boy, Water

“One Child:
I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Hope, History, Time, Future

“it is just as wrong, or even perhaps 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

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Variant: I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
Context: I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make 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 perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.