Night Watch Quotes

“ConaLee, there is no forever. We are on our walk and the day is fine.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“A blank pulsing thud of heartbeat is the only key he possesses, and it fits no lock.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“That we are still and stars are turning.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“hold”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“Reasons for Admission 1864 to 1889 Intemperance & Business Trouble Kicked in the Head by a Horse Hereditary Predisposition Ill Treatment by Husband Imaginary Female Trouble Hysteria Immoral Life Imprisonment Jealousy and Religion Laziness Marriage of Son Masturbation & Syphilis Masturbation for 30 Years Medicine to Prevent Conception Menstrual Deranged Mental Excitement Novel Reading Nymphomania Opium Habit Over Action Of The Mind”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“read my thoughts better than I could think them. But I pulled close the pounding heart of the rabbit on the lawn, and the sound of the owl beating his great wings, flying to find the rabbit and tear it open.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“So many died birthing babies, the risk taken willingly or forced upon them.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“for the whole town is here, first in alarm and now in curiosity and speculation.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“Story dismisses chance or destiny but believes in the still, small voice that draws one forward incrementally.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“ConaLee, there is no forever. We are on our walk and the day is fine. You must think…each day is separate, until a way is clear.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“Our lives are small, our victories smaller.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“in the last days perilous times shall come.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“upon me. I never saw them, knew them.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“Weed,”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“for he does not remember, remembers nothing, though felt at last within himself the miracle of a truth known and believed.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“his Southern sympathies a cover for a diseased mind.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“Miss Janet, not her surname, I think, may never remember who she was, but perhaps she can accept who she is.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“but he hungered to lose himself in a human endeavor that was not war.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“yet our peace, prosperity and happiness, and…that of the whole country, [depends] on the speedy suppression of this attempt to overthrow the Government of our fathers;”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch