Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

I want as much time in the darkness as I can possibly have. The darkness provides cover, the darkness provides places to hide and the darkness provides comfort. Darkness usually comes around dinner, but dinner would be too obvious.

Obscurity often brings safety.

Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

I am best viewed from a distance... and at night.

I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.

My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me.

Obscurity brings safety.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.

A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.

One must use the night.

Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.