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- We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night - every night, every night - the moment I feigned sleep.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Pale Fire")
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- But, enough of that for now. Let's get lost again in the starry night.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
(Willa Cather, "My Ántonia")
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- Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- This was after stew. But then, so is everything. When the first man crawled out of the slime and went to make his home on land, what he had for dinner that night was stew.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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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, "Where the Red Fern Grows")
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- It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
(Victor Hugo, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame")
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- The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness
(Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse")
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- Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.
(Toni Morrison, "Beloved")
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- Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time.
(Toni Morrison, "The Bluest Eye")
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