“Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.”
— Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar
"Mad Girl's Love Song" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/madgirl.html (1953) from Collected Poems (1981) <br class="br">Variant: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. <br class="br">Source: The Bell Jar
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I lift my lids and all is born again." by Sylvia Plath?
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“I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead”
Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors
Source: Running with Scissors
“I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.”
John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“I sacrifice my power on the altar of your love
that it may be born again on another world.”
Mike Scott (1958) songwriter, musician
"Universal Hall" (co-written with Steve Wickham)
Universal Hall (2003)
Context: I sacrifice my power on the altar of your love
that it may be born again on another world.
Come friend, let us climb the winding flights of stairs
through the narrow door into the chamber bare
a single candle burns as we seat ourselves
words take form in our minds and repeat themselves :
"My beloved and I are one…"
“I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut”
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
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