"What comes in when daylight leaves is a kind of certainty: that beneath the skin there is a secret, some mystery both black and bright. You feel this mystery in every breath, you see it in every shadow, you expect to plunge into it at every turn of a step."
There is an unexplainable feeling of mystery and excitement at night time when everything is dark. Your inability to see heightens the other senses; making you certain that every sound you hear is out of the ordinary, that something strange whether good or bad is taking place. When we watch movies and the characters are out at night we are always almost certain that something mysterious is going to happen, whether terrifying or thrilling, it is something unique to the night. I believe this quote is not necessarily implying that only scary things happen at night, but more implying that mysterious, wondrous events take place. The darkness of night adds a unique sense of excitement, thrill of the unknown. This image depicts night time with the wonder and mystery it holds, it depicts night the way King is describing in is quote.
Stephen King, Bag of Bones (New York: Pocket Books, 1998), page 231
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