“Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

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English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, … 1797–1851

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 6 “Purple Haze” (p. 124)

“She was very fair and there was an expression of weariness in the lovely liquid dark eyes. Her little finely curved and red hued lips seemed like drooping rosebuds and were sealed as if it were in silence eternal…. she seemed as if she guessed the cruel fate which had been meted out for her by the Rani and Rajah and her other rich but distant relations in whose hands she seemed a helpless toy.”

Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) Hungarian Indian artist

At the age of 12, her description of a bride at an Indian wedding.
Sikh Heritage,Amrita Shergil

“I'm working on Buffy: Deep Space Nine. It will be dark and badly received.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Entertainment Weekly Angel TV Preview, published in issue #727-728 (12 September 2003)

“She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VIII, 50
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.

“There was something in her higher than what surrounded her. There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations. This glow shone out in her exquisite, truly enigmatic eyes. The weary, and at the same time passionate, glance of those eyes, encircled by dark rings, impressed one by its perfect sincerity. Everyone looking into those eyes fancied he knew her wholly, and knowing her, could not but love her.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Anna’s thoughts about Liza, Part III, Chapter 13
Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

“Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall effect was haunting, inhumanly beautiful.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“She was so open and frank… She made space around her, if we just behaved… Everybody seemed to trust this woman and gathered gladly around her.”

Ingeborg Refling Hagen (1895–1989) Norwegian writer

On Eleanor Roosevelt, volume III
Memoirs

“Tell her she is not to be imposed upon, and you impose upon her effectually. Admire her penetration, and you will not find her impenetrable.”

Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845) British author and journalist

"That Old Birds are not to be Caught with Chaff".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Context: The starched matron is fain to put faith in the compliment which in her day of youth and grace she knew to be nonsense.... If her mirror will not admit of this she has other resources; she has sage counsel, admirable judgment, perfect knowledge of the world.... Tell her she is not to be imposed upon, and you impose upon her effectually. Admire her penetration, and you will not find her impenetrable.

“Her silence was the blank space between the words.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

“She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.”

Sarah Waters The Night Watch

Source: The Night Watch

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