Middle of the Night Quotes

“Something most people don't realize until they're older. But everyone is a little weird. Some people hide it more than others, but it's true, Everyone is weird.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Too much of childhood is spent being lied to by adults because they think it'll spare your feelings.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Each time, I’m struck by how strange it is to see someone I think of as forever young looking thoroughly middle-aged. It’s the same jarring feeling I sometimes get when I look in the mirror.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Hakuna matata, dude.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“So I shouldn't care that I'm a little weird?

All you should care about is being yourself, no matter who that person is. Some people might not like you for who you are, but a whole bunch of people will. I promise.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“In my experience, men who say they want the truth end up wishing they had settled for the lie.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“The world is often brutal and cruel, and it only seems to get harder as time marches forward. The pressures and dangers kids face today are so much worse than when I was that age.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Whenever you find the ball in your yard, it means you need to come over and find me.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Several scenarios pop into my head, starting with the worst, because that’s my default mode.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Suspicion has a way of breaking through even the strongest barriers.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“It was easier to believe a nameless, faceless bogeyman took Billy than consider the likelihood that it was someone from Hemlock Circle.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“DEATH IS MERELY AN ILLUSION”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Something most people don’t realize until they’re older. But everyone is a little weird. Some people hide it more than others, but it’s true. Everyone is weird.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“I exhale, releasing the breath I hadn’t known I was holding in.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“When someone shows a book this much love, they deserve a copy just for them.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“I've grown accustomed to those dark, quiet hours in the middle of the night, when it feels like I'm the only man in the world not asleep.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“There were no villains in this story. Nor were there heroes.
Just a neighborhood of flawed people, some more than others.”
― Riley Sager , Middle of the Night

“What I can’t understand is why. If he wanted to talk, he could have revealed himself. Instead, he continued to creep between the Hawthorne Institute and my backyard, usually with a baseball in hand.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“In Johnny, he noticed a sensitivity most teenage boys lack. Unfortunately, those who are the most sensitive are sometimes also the most troubled. Which Johnny was. When he overdosed, it was a shock to all of us.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Definitely. Scary enough to make him want to turn around and go the other way? Absolutely.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“In this world, weird kids are bully magnets, and she fears life will only get worse for Billy if he doesn’t lower his freak flag a little bit. “This world gets crazier every”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“While I’d assumed that was the case, it feels different when that assumption is confirmed. Because deep down, I never wanted to believe it. For decades I’d harbored faint hopes and what-ifs. Now that I know I was wrong all this time, it feels like I’m floating.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“worry is a by-product of love.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Life is hard. There’s no point denying it. The world is often brutal and cruel, and it only seems to get harder as time marches forward. The pressures and dangers kids face today are so much worse than when I was that age. I”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“He was still seen as weird.
If he was noticed at all.
[...]
Flipping through the book, reading page after page of spirits with names like djinn and stafie, he realized he wasn't the only one who didn't feel seen. That the world was filled with entities who were here but invisible, present but ignored.
[...]
She wouldn't understand that he sees ghosts as, no pun intended, kindred spirits. That when he opens The Giant Book and sees illustrations of all these scary, fantastical, misunderstood spirits, it feels like they could be the friends he lacks.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“bats that occasionally try to roost in the eaves.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“Why does she have to just be the glue? Can’t she also help build the house?”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“His name is Ethan Marsh. He is ten. And this is the last carefree moment he’ll have for the next thirty years.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“There are ghosts everywhere,” Ezra Hawthorne tells him, “if you just know where to look.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“As he tallies their scores and sees he’s won his first game ever against Billy,”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night