It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.
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Related There was an image in my mind—an expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself f... LAURA KREITZER The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is em... E.B. WHITE In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at al... SARAH DESSEN At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. ALBERTO MANGUEL It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night. HUNTER S. THOMPSON In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER That was like my 80th shot. I was just trying to get it in. I tried everything else and finally got ... ANGIE KUHN When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make ... DAMIEN HIRST And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the hou... ANTONIA MICHAELIS I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was be... JOSS WHEDON I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowin... DONNY OSMOND He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make som... IAN MCEWAN You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late ni... JOSS WHEDON It was always about everybody else. Even when she was dying, she was concerned about everyone else. KATE WIATROWSKI The waitress brought a fresh pot of tea, and Marty refilled his father’s cup and poured a cup for ... JAMIE FORD What could never be endured, it turned out, was the last swathe of time before sleep came, the path ... MARTIN AMIS My world was ordered, calm, and controlled, then you came into my life with your smart mouth, your i... E.L. JAMES Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I... GAYLE FORMAN I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to ... MAHATMA GANDHI I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep. ELIZABETH GEORGE And not one person would notice the grey parts of her until it was too late, because everyone falls ... R. Y.S. PEREZ It was looking like it would totally dominate everything else. JOE SCHAEFER Finally at 3:30 he called me as he was walking back to Brooklyn, ... He was late that morning so he ... TOM ELLIS If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO I always left everything at the studio when I went home at night. It was just another job for me. FELIX SILLA I came from a Halloween-friendly home. My dad, Spencer, was a U.S. Marine captain. But when it came ... BILL MOSELEY I'm a late bloomer. Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead, and I didn't come... WHIT STILLMAN At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices. ERIN BOW Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Ev... PALOMA PICASSO ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence a... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's... SARAH DESSEN When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your... RALPH WALDO EMERSON That was big. Those shots always happen against us and finally it happened for us. KATHY BOCOCK If anything, I was excited for [Donovan, Beasley and Convey] because I played with those guys. It's ... ADOLFO GREGORIO My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light ... ALLISON PEARSON God knows Everyone. God knows Everything. God knows everything about everyone. APURVA GAGLANI Everything is 5 elements. Everyone is only One. There is no Second. So God knows Everything. And God... APURVA GAGLANI When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'D... JOHN BARROWMAN It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look for... JEANNETTE WALLS I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday ... MINDY KALING It wasn't a night on the town. It was a quiet night between three friends who, like all young kids, ... JOHN CASEY It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th... REBECCA FERGUSON I haven’t been out driving at this time of night in many years, much less in an unfamiliar area. T... MICHAEL ZADOORIAN When your tristful past is often haunting your mind, then you will look less human and more ghost! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There was no electricity, the generator came late. I was just hoping that it would be morning soon. GRAHAM LIM It took probably a month before he would actually sleep through the night without waking up and cryi... SARAH ZIMMERMAN Everything about the quarter was either in line or soft, and nothing came in stronger than expected. DAVID BLEUSTEIN Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, ... JOHN STEINBECK When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was th... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out wh... ANGELINA JOLIE But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, ... FORD MADOX FORD I was with all of the guys today, and we were all just talking about how excited we are. Everyone el... ANDY POLKA It was crucial for us that he step up. He struggled some late last week against Cincinnati (a 28-26 ... JEFF GENYK With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in... CHARLTON HESTON I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d... DEBORAH COX I'd be lying to myself if I said I wasn't thinking about a re-injury. Every night before I went to s... PEYTON STOVALL At times you can hear voices at night, like mumbling. I would hear like ladies screaming and kids ta... JOE RIOS It was kind of like last season; we came back with the same mind-set that we would do it. We just ca... DARRIN SHINE Mitchell was really locked in late in the game and hitting everything that was thrown at them. MARK GULSETH He was always the first guy Jason White would talk to when he came off the field. Josh has a really ... BOB STOOPS The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basical... ANDREA BARRETT I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I t... HILARY DUFF 'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a s... KEVIN BACON Shit," Delia said. "I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do. SARAH DESSEN It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself SARAH DESSEN Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for your... HENRY JAMES You were like a blank piece of paper, sitting there; lonely, empty, lifeless, and soulless. Until li... ROSA M. BETANCES I was always a visual artist my whole life, and I came to music really late - when I was 21 or 22 wa... TYCHO It was pretty quiet at times. The potential to fill the place was always there, but it just took the... BRIAN FINNERAN When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from... TINA BROWN I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Everyone was always becoming someone else. BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe,... KURT VONNEGUT When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone e... ANNE ROIPHE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You'... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like th... JENNIFER NIVEN Late at night there's always people walking back and forth. It's just amazing something like this co... DAVID REYES Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. ALBERT CAMUS If that intensity on the practice court increased, it would make her better, and more than anything,... KURT GREENE Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud,... MARK VONNEGUT I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and ... CHARLIE WORSHAM When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in... CHAZ BONO I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no on... RACHEL PLATTEN It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrive... CHLOE THURLOW One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, wit... MARGUERITE YOURCENAR We all have an old house because of the things we have done in the past.We also have ghosts haunting... GARY F EVANS... It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise. BRIDGET ASHER We were all hoping for Michelle still yet to come, but you know, Sarah Hughes skated to win [Thursda... DOROTHY HAMILL They knew it was on their shoulders when it was like 7-all. I was really proud of Tara and Sarah, th... JIM SHEEHAN In the '70s, when I started here, your heroin was probably 7 to 15 percent pure. It was cut with cor... CHIEF CHARLES HUSKA By now it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should h... BRANDON SANDERSON One person burned on Friday and thought it was out and didn't come back until late Saturday when it ... RON EHLI He was a hard worker. He was one of those guys you could count on. Eight o'clock in the morning or 1... BOB SHAW I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my step... PATTIE BOYD He was always a good listener. He wasn't one of those kids who came on the team and thought he knew ... JACK RINGEL Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the ... DAMIAN WOETZEL Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social w... IAN MCEWAN With consolidation you have fewer and fewer voices, ... I always thought that the strength of radio ... BOB EDWARDS
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SARAH DESSEN Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anyt... SARAH DESSEN Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all... SARAH DESSEN Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the... SARAH DESSEN I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran... SARAH DESSEN Nothing like being scolded by a hippie. SARAH DESSEN After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and sp... SARAH DESSEN I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. SARAH DESSEN Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never rea... SARAH DESSEN After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor wo... SARAH DESSEN It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost... SARAH DESSEN It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should... SARAH DESSEN When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need. SARAH DESSEN That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death... SARAH DESSEN It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean. SARAH DESSEN I want the white one SARAH DESSEN As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret... SARAH DESSEN Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?" What do you mean?"... SARAH DESSEN I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as... SARAH DESSEN So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me. "Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie." SARAH DESSEN Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there h... SARAH DESSEN I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings... SARAH DESSEN If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don�... SARAH DESSEN Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff... SARAH DESSEN There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto... SARAH DESSEN That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing... SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in... SARAH DESSEN Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. SARAH DESSEN It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were y... SARAH DESSEN These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to... SARAH DESSEN You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like... SARAH DESSEN Story of my life. SARAH DESSEN instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her ... SARAH DESSEN I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, callin... SARAH DESSEN I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am ... SARAH DESSEN I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had t... SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak... SARAH DESSEN Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. SARAH DESSEN