Evening Quotes - Page 32

• Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was human. I watched him walk through the hills and come back in the evening when his work was through. I saw things no woman would see: that he knew how to cry, that he was alone. I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.

  Alice Hoffman

  Beautiful, Air, Hands

  Alice Hoffman (2009). “The Story Sisters: A Novel”, p.143, Broadway Books

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• On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

  Stephen King

  Air, Smell, Church

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

  Robert Hass

  Afternoon, Numinous, Blackberries

  "Meditation at Lagunitas" l. 28 (1979)

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• I deciced if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, 'Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you. . . . Are you perchance free this evening?

  Rachel Cohn

  Christmas, Bed, Would Be

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

  Louis L'Amour

  Games, Long, People

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

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• Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared to stare at it until it went under. In the Kitchen Bridget was still singing one of her awful sad songs; the lyrics drifted in through the door: "Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?" I may murder her, Tessa thought. Let her make a song about that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Sweet, Song

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Ice Cream, Eating, Happens

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• That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.

  Deborah Harkness

  Stars, Home, Sunset

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.63, Penguin

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• He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Color, Rainbow, Majority

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• We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend.

  John Green

  Stars, Young Friends, Young

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.749, Penguin

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• a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride the day down into night, to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand

  Ted Kooser

  Book, Night, Light

  Ted Kooser, “A Happy Birthday”

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• There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Library, Pouring, Wells

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• Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Sunday, Hands

  Jane Austen (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)”, p.855, Jane Austen

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• More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Here I Am, Giving

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• Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Tonight, Action, Intention

  Hanif Kureishi (2010). “Intimacy”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.

  Cassandra Clare

  Important, Afternoon, Brooding

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

  Beatrix Potter

  Mother, Taken, Tea

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• I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum’thing has always been and always will be you.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Morning, Walks, Stills

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• This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

  Richard Siken

  Wish, Half, Splits

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• I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I had worn a slightly fancier dress, and that Nick and I had danced on our wedding night, I have no real regrets about the way we chose to do things.

  Emily Giffin

  Regret, Real, Believe

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• There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

  Robin Hobb

  Night, Promise, Bed

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.42, Spectra

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• Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Son, Cake, Tea

  "Their eyes were watching God: a novel".

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• Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dark, People, Car

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• Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Running, Morning, Father

  "Donald Ray Pollock On Finding Fiction Late In Life". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 26, 2011.

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• When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman’s hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Fall, Shoes, Sound

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