Nighttime Companionship Quotes

I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

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

I still don't like going to bed alone.

Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.