Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast, die young,…

— Robert B. Parker

“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours…

— Oscar Wilde

Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And…

— Anonymous

“I have seized the day, and the night too.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“The remainder of the afternoon went by in the gentle gloom that descends when relatives appear . . .”

— Harper Lee

“You said that the night returned what the day had taken. You”

— Edouard Levé

“I began, reluctantly, to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future. This, I knew, was as…

— André Aciman

“I thought of myself hanging in the store, as a mote imprisoned on a shaft of sunlight. Pushed and pulled by the slightest shift…

— Maya Angelou

“The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the…

— Ellen Glasgow

“You are dawn and she is midnight. And despite the mist of the half-light, together you see more clearly in the dusk.”

— Samantha Young

“At the dawn of light, darkness disappears.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita