One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed…

“I practice Dying--every night-- But have not learned to, still-- Though Talented--by Mortal bones-- For such a common Skill.”

— Alan W. Powers

“You can date every girl in town as far as I’m concerned. I hate you. I pray every night that you’ll fall victim to…

— Kim Harrington

“Maybe I'd absorbed the capacity to hurt someone by listening to my parents every night, who were under the impression that turning the volume…

— Charles Yu

I'm always looking at new ways to tell a joke so that it doesn't get stale while working on new jokes every night or…

— Bill Burr

“When at last we arrived in Mannheim, I found that my apartment had been rented to a family whose young son was an amputee.…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate…

— Joe Dunthorne

“It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark, every unexplained…

— Kate Morton

“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself…

— Alice Munro

“I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I have to…

— Daniel Willey

Every night I go to sleep smiling, even when I have a bad day. I'm just thankful that God allowed me to live it.

— Anonymous

“I'm going to lay it out straight for you here, Carson. And the reason that I'm going to do that is because I have…

— Mia Sheridan

I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've…

— Joss Whedon

“It’s a red sky every night with Cosmic Ordering.”

— Stephen Richards

“What does it say?" asked my lord. "It says, 'Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she used to say when we were…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Oh, my god, I don't know. What do you want?" "You," he said, his voice lowering an octave. "I want you, Dutch, body and…

— Darynda Jones