#nigh

The tension drained from her face and she softened in his hold until she was again the fluid, responsive woman who had kissed him within an inch of his life. This time he knew better than to restrain her when she slipped from the bed. He bit back an appeal for her to stay with him. If his life depended on it, he couldn’t say whether he wanted her to stay an hour, a day, or forever. ↗

— Anna Campbell

#jonas #seven-nights #sidonie #life

It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye. ("For The Rest Of Her Life") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#evil #night #omen #ominous #star

How crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#life

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#love #love

Love doesn't always come in convenient packages. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#esme #midnight-sun #love

And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#infatuation #love

I am the sunrise of sunsets, and I make love like noon at midnight.
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— Jarod Kintz

#midnight #noon #sunrise #sunsets #love

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love ↗

— Clive Barker

#absolute-midnight #clive-barker #hate #hurt #love

Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it," Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. "And I usually love sparkly things. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#burned #house-of-night #p-c-cast #love

Even though we both know that our loved one will never so much as look our way we can’t erase that small something within us that continues to hope in vain. ↗

— Matsuri Hino

#love