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“Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“We can’t go in there at night — there’s all sorts of things in there — werewolves, I heard.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” - 1997

“Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Hound of the Baskervilles” - 1902

“A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see—that's my idea of happiness.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.” Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” - 1953

“Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

“This is night, Diddykins. That’s what we call it when it goes all dark like this.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” - 2003

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His...” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light...” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” - 1836

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.” Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” - 1942

“Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” - 2000

“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.” Charles Dickens, “Nicholas Nickleby” - 1839

“Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.” George R. R. Martin, “A Storm of Swords” - 2000

“Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.” H. G. Wells, “The War of the Worlds” - 1898

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