Full moon Quote by Peter Matthiessen

The moths beat themselves to death against the lights. Adding their breeze to the summer nights.

— Modest Mouse

“The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join…

— Heather Heffner

“And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.”

— Jack Kerouac

“First the light in the sky was no bigger than the moon, then it seemed larger, infinitely larger, and the whole grove trembled and…

— Neil Gaiman

“Stood there in the moonlight – so much light from such a slender moon – and watched her dying like an October butterfly”

— Phil Rickman

“Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was conscious of…

— Barry Pain

“Starlight played on its swirling surface two hundred paces away. Moths fluttered like flecks of snow fleeing the warm wind. Neither man spoke for…

— Steven Erikson

“And when white moths were on the wing and moth-like stars were flickering out”

— Anonymous

“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching…

— Alice Hoffman

“On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit…

— Ambrose Bierce

“He was still wide awake when the morning came - the light changed imperceptibly underground, with the glowtrees flaring up brightly, and the shimmer…

— Ekaterina Sedia

“Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because…

— Glen Hirshberg