Quotes about evening
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“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.”

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

Hope, Chance

“If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

World

“The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

Death, Light, Sun

“I whispered “I’m not,” even though I was. Not scared of him, but scared of everything I felt. Sometimes it was too much. What I felt for him was bigger than the world, than anything.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

World

“Ian shrugged like he didn't care, though his reddened face indicated differently.
- 'Tis always the same. Either they're no' interested because they think I'm a child, or they are interested because they think I'm a child, which is even worse.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Thinking

“They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!"

"Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Smile

“I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”

Lois McMaster Bujold The Curse of Chalion

Source: The Curse of Chalion

“The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will become exceptionally beautiful in time.”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 5

Beauty, Time, Heart, Weather

“Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

Truth, Beauty

“You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Love, Personality

“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

People

“Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

Life

“I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”

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

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Love

“He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had”

Tad Williams book City of Golden Shadow

Source: City of Golden Shadow

“Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: When God Whispers Your Name

God, Understanding

“Firsts were important. But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

Love, Making love, Thinking

“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others

Life, Coffee

“Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“He’s stronger than this. He’s always been stronger… (Vane)
Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

“I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.”

Elizabeth Moon book The Speed of Dark

Source: The Speed of Dark

“All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

God, World, Girl

“I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 2
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Love

“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”

Elizabeth Peters (1927–2013) American author and egyptologist

Source: The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

Way, Cats

“You should see his older brother,” said Jem. “Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that’s possible.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Hate

“And let’s be honest, you weren’t exactly harmed. I even took you home.” “You dumped me on my doorstep. According to my mother, I looked half dead.” “Your mother exaggerates. A third dead at most.” I stared at him. Wow. Just wow.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Home, Dead

“I don't even hate books anymore.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Hate, Books

“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us — the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Episode 1, Opening introduction voice-over
The Power of Myth (1988)

God, World, Travel, Time

“Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.

Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Hunger, Feeling, Game, Flowers

“Oh if life were made of moments
Even now and then a bad one--!
But if life were only moments,
Then you'd never know you had one.”

Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist

Source: Into the Woods

Life

“The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

World

“Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.”

Brother Lawrence (1614–1691) French Christian monk

God, Business, Thinking, Night

“Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

Memory, Time

“Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Story of Us

Life

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Source: Walden & Civil Disobedience

Life, Men, Country

“I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

-Ella Varner”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

“How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

War

“Late this evening I looked at the sky and saw the stars. I felt as if it was the first time I had ever looked at them.
I was stunned.
The stars made an extraordinary impression on me”

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director

Source: Journal 1970-1986

Star, Time

“You weaseled your way into my life, Simon Lewis, and I don’t know how or why or even when but it happened, and I kind of hate it but I can’t change it, and here it is”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Life, Hate, Way, Change

“And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.”

Ben Sherwood (1964) American author, journalist, and entrepreneur

Home, Thinking

“Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.”

Roberto Bolaño book The Savage Detectives

Source: The Savage Detectives

Truth

“You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. […] Your life is not disposable.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Life, Understanding, Future

“As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

People, Beauty, Cars

“Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.”

Ron McLarty book The Memory of Running

Source: The Memory of Running

Love, People

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: The Library at Night

Books, Imagination

“When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening…. I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.”

Kathleen Norris (1880–1966) American writer

Books

“I find you irritating. (Kat)
I haven’t even begun to irritate you yet. Imagine what I could do if I applied myself? (Solin)
I can imagine. I can also imagine ripping your throat out and tying my shoes with your larynx. (Kat)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: The Dream Hunter

Shoe, Imagination

“I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Time, Help

“There was something so primal and hungry about the way he stared down at her.. the way their bodies unconsciously strained toward one another as if nothing - not even time, not distance, not even death- could ever keep them apart.”

Amanda Stevens (1977)

Source: The Restorer

Death, Way, Time

“Dimitri: "Were you really going to attack all of us? Doing that… protecting her like that—it was very brave. Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?”
Rose: "Because I'm her guardian.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Stupidity

“We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.”

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

People

“As long as she is alive and well and happy in this world, I will find a way to be happy as well, even if it is not beside her”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Happiness, World, Way

“Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Forgetting

“If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish”

Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) comedian and social critic

“Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic, can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo”

Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer

Source: The Rescue

Study

“Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Life, Perseverance

“Alec's trying to get Magnus to take him seriously, but he's never told our parents about Magnus, or even that he likes, you know -" "Warlocks?" Simon said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Parent

“I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You probably call them 'parts-dropping-off challenged' or something.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Feeling, Parting

“You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

Imagination

“I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,
You see me there.”

Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet

Dreams, Way, Change

“Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Way, Time

“Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Source: Open Heart

Friendship, Feeling, Light

“It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

Feeling, Strong, Anger

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

People, Faith

“But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and one time she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Books, Time, Reading, Summer

“Peter. Peter Kavinsky.” Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Pleasure

“Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look thrilled about it.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.”

Connie Willis (1945) American science fiction writer

Source: Even the Queen: & Other Short Stories

Freedom

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: Horns

Way

“A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Death, Confidence, Despair

“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness.”
“Some things last.”
I faced him. “Really? And just what would that be?”
“The things that matter.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Freedom, Personality

“I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Time

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités ont leur mélancolie, car ce que nous quittons, c'est une partie de nous-mêmes; il faut mourir à une vie pour entrer dans une autre.
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

Life, Change, Parting, Goodbye

“Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

World

“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: Margarettown

Love, Pain, Pleasure, Chance

“She learned to love him before he thought it was even possible, so he didn't have a chance to hide & mess it up & while it was a little scary at times, mainly he could not even imagine the world without her there.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Trusting Soul

Love, World, Imagination, Learning

“Reach for the stars and even if you miss you will land among the stars”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: Jeremy Finl & the Meaning of Life

Star

“The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.”

Michael Crichton book The Andromeda Strain

Source: The Andromeda Strain

Parting

“One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Age

“Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.”

T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: Selected Poems

“‎"You want more?" she asked a bit breathlessly. "Even after what we did?"
His mouth took on a sardonic twist. "I'm afraid quantity usually matters for me…"
--THE PRINCESS'S ASSASSINS”

Emma Holly (1961) American writer

Princess

“Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time." Page 212.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Variant: I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
Source: Life of Pi

Time

“Who's there?' he called, then frowned. 'Of course,' he added, addressing the darkness all around, 'even I, as a Shadowhunter, have seen enough movies to know that anyone who yells 'Who's there?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

is going to be instantly killed.'"
Jace Herondale, pg. 442
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)