"I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it’s hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”
— Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)"
This is exactly how I feel and exactly why I stay up so late night after night. Except it’s worded much more beautifully here and makes the entire concept seem a lot less cynical, so thanks, Dave Eggers. You get me, I get you, we get each other, and all is well.
