Air Quote by James Joyce

“At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what shade of colour the first…

— Marcel Proust

“It also had extraordinary acoustics: in the hush of the small hours, a goods truck smashing into a pothole sounded like an explosion, and…

— Joseph O'Neill

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp…

— Sherwood Anderson

“That night for the first time in my life I realized that it is the physical presence of people and their spirits that gives…

— Ishmael Beah

“Over the balustrade I could see the dark trees of Webster Groves and the more distant TV-tower lights that marked the boundaries of my…

— Jonathan Franzen

“we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all…

— Jack Kerouac

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead…

— Charles Dickens

“The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown…

— Mary Stewart

“But there was a time when light waged a heroic battle with darkness. It was a time when night skies were not bleached by…

— Bruce Watson

We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness.…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

“Cold. Foggy cold. Soaking through fabric, biting into the skin, clutching the bones until flesh crawled. There was no moonlight, only orange, smoky lanterns,…

— Erik Tavares

“As the day light left the city that night, the streetlamps were not up to anything like their usual candle-power. It was difficult to…

— Thomas Pynchon