Moonlight Quotes - Page 11

• He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! And he is--Oh, well! He is just himself, and I miss him, and miss him, and miss him. The whole world seems empty and aching. I hate the moonlight because it's beautiful and he isn't here to see it with me. But maybe you've loved somebody, too, and you know? If you have, I don't need to explain; if you haven't, I can't explain.

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Hate, Believe

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• They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Dark, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it had passed. Strange to say, I feel a little that way about myself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Morning, World, Littles

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.74, Macmillan

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• Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? They’re nothing like ordinary shadows. Nothing at all. They come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts. Or maybe not. It struck me then that the tears my shadow was shedding might be the real thing, and the tears that I was shedding were just shadows. You don’t get it, I’m sure, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. When a naked seventeen-year-old girl is shedding tears in the moonlight, anything can happen. It’s true.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Real, Heart

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• What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees-only the boy might change, and this one was so nice.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Song, Nice, Boys

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.159, e-artnow

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• He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

  Don DeLillo

  Said

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Body Artist”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.

  Kevin Brooks

  Mind, Pathways, World

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• The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago." Then what-?" Jayfeather began, but already Yellowfang's shape was beginning to fade, melting into the moonlight until she was gone. The moonlight abrubtly vanished, leaving Jayfeather in darkness as he woke from his dream. Mouse dung! Why can't any cat speak straight out?" he hissed

  Erin Hunter

  Dream, Lying, Cat

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• You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)

  Joyce Maynard

  Baby, Fall, Night

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• The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

  Georges Bataille

  Night, Owl, Fields

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• In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Cat, Dark, Opposites

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.15, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.

  Wilson Rawls

  Dog, Lonely, Night

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• I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

  Tennessee Williams

  Summer, Lasts, Boat

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Games, Tables

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wonder what kinds of songs Preston's father sang to him." Zach raised his eyebrows. "I wonder if he's in a cell humming them to himself right now." I should have said something-done something. He was in a dark place, there in the moonlight. But before I could say a word, Zach took a deep breath and looked up at the fortress. "I wonder if I should join him.

  Ally Carter

  Song, Father, Dark

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• They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.

  Yip Harburg

  Valentines Day, Lost Love, Moon

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• Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees, - Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Memories, Moon, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1934). “Wine from these grapes”

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• 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'

  Robert Ruark

  Fun, Memories, Night

  Robert Ruark (2016). “Old Man’s Boy Grows Up”, p.162, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Look at that wonderful moonlight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home.

  Wu Cheng'en

  Travel, Home, Long

  Wu Cheng'en (2014). “Journey to the West: The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures”, p.165, Tuttle Publishing

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• What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?

  John L. Balderston

  Girl, Men, Feet

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• But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't see, let alone decipher, or in the dark glow that replaced the real darkness of night, a darkness already stolen from us, not with the skyline rising behind us while a city gradually decayed, not in the heat of summer while a Cold War raged, despite the freedom of youth and the license of first love-because of fate, karma, luck, what does it matter?-we made not doing it a wonder, and yet we didn't, we didn't, we never did.

  Stuart Dybek

  Love, Summer, Karma

  Stuart Dybek (2004). “I Sailed with Magellan”, p.244, Macmillan

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• The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.

  Leigh Hunt

  Summer, Sweet, Morning

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• All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Memories, Flower, Mean

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.90, Penguin

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• Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Views, Tea, Mountain

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• Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Running, Real, Fighting

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