Jodi Picoult Quotes

I come alive in the night time

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.

I actually prefer night shoots to days. I prefer being up. It's easier for me. I'm more of a night person.

I like to work at night.

I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.

There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

I don't go out at night.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

Why is it called 'after dark' when it really is 'after light'?

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.

Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning

The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

Tabitha checked her watch. It was almost ten. “I don’t know about you, but I’m famished. Want to go grab a bite?” Valerius gave her an amused stare. “You have to be the only woman alive who would ask a man with fangs that question.