“Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.”
“opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .”
“A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!”
“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
“Ladies, it's almost midnight. And I, for one, hoped not to have to resort to kissing Gaspard when the clock strikes twelve.”
“The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike”