Air Quote by Terry Pratchett

Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.

— William Golding

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

— Andre Breton

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

— Ishmael Beah

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

— John Milton

There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.

— Eva Hart

The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes...

— Clemence Housman

Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

— Ray Bradbury

When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.

— Edmund Waller

Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening…

— Dean Koontz

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses…

— James Joyce