Night Quote by Chad Harbach

“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for…

— César Aira

“I continued with my morning runs, avoiding the house on Bethel Street for the first few days. Another encounter with Nick Schwartz wasn’t something…

— Debbie Macomber

“He took deep breaths. He wanted to sleep. At least in sleeping, he could find a kind of peace. At least in sleeping, he…

— Alex London

“He rolled in his bed, twisting the sheets, grappling with a problem years too big for him, awake in the night like a single…

— Stephen King

“The jangle of the telephone rousted Matt out of a deep sleep. He never dreamed. Dreams were too messy.”

— Peggy Webb

“All the events of his life were compressing to singularity: one night, one hour.”

— Anthony Doerr

“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of…

— Gillian Flynn

“I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get…

— Helen Garner

“Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Sometimes, in the dark of night, when no one else could hear him but me, he'd cry out, like he was fighting some silent…

— Cathie Pelletier

“in his frozen sleep, no one could hear his screams.”

— James A. Moore