Quotes about eye
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“A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his best friend. And she went after him in ill-considered shoes, brave and completely unprepared.”

Anne Ursu (1900) American writer

Source: Breadcrumbs

People, Shoe, Boy, Heart

“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything”

Franz Kafka book The Castle

Source: The Castle (1926)

“You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes."
- Jennifer, "Beauty Queens”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Men, Pain, Beauty

“Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

People, Idea

“The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman?

"Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Men

“There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

World, Beauty, Light, Waiting

“… but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Way, Heart

“Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Love, Kiss

“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.”

Malcolm Gladwell book Blink

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Heart

“Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince

Men, Feeling, Appearance

“Damn, I need eye bleach.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Ice

“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Light

“It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

Lydia Millet (1968) American writer

Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

Light, Learning, Sea

“Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

“I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.”

Judy Collins (1939) American singer and songwriter

“The eye altering, alters all.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”

Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author

Change

“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Life, Past, Heart, Dance

“She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to be with you.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Secret, Soul

“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood (1987)

“She's alive," Thomas said, not opening his eyes.
"What?" Will was caught off guard.
"The one you come back for. Her. Tessa. She's with Sophie.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“… for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

Girl, Lovers

“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.”

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist

Life, World, Smile, Art

“She had eyes like strange sins.”

Raymond Chandler book The High Window

Source: The High Window

“He buried his face in my throat. “Love you.” Tears stung my eyes. He said the words so rarely. “Tell me again,” I begged, holding on to him. His mouth found mine. “I love you . . .”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Captivated by You

Love, Tear

“It's your eyes. They're… more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much”

Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

Love, Fools

“Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine.
“You’re not dead.”
“No,” I said. “Though we’re trying awfully hard.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Dead

“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Love, Silence, Night

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

Robertson Davies book Tempest-Tost

Source: Tempest-Tost

“A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight

Ivi; p. 147
Source: Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)

Beauty, Flowers, Personality

“And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

Hope

“He even listened to more than her sounds, because Tiger Lily was a girl of few words. He listened with his eyes, watched her facial expressions, judged body language, and therefore read Tiger Lily better than anyone else.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Girl, Reading

“There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Beauty

“I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.”

Jack Whyte book Uther

Source: Uther

Life

“Luke's left side was bloody. His eyes were open—blue eyes, the way they used to be. His breath was a deep rattle. "Good… blade," he croaked.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Way

“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“I… understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Understanding, Parent

“Never take your eyes off them,” Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. “Didn’t MacNeil ever tell you that?”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

“Hades took off his helm. His complexion was even paler than usual. He had a bad case of helmet hair. He was sweating and nervous and blinking like he had something in his eyes. "I am Hades," he said in a squeaky voice. "I love you.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Love

“The good guys and bad guys aren’t as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Guy, Thinking, Heart

“Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It falls upon her.
Love is like dying.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Love, Lovers

“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.”

John Webster The Duchess of Malfi

Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
Source: The Duchess of Malfi

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Beauty, Peaceful, Flowers

“Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Keep a Quiet Heart

Business, Future

“I think so,” she [Claire] said. “Just watch your back, okay?”
“Nah, Michael’s got mine.” He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes.
“I’ve got yours.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Thinking

“[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"
[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.”

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

Hope

“What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over”

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English humorist

“He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.”

Alyson Nöel book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

Light

“i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Understanding

“It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet

“This is a cardinal Ya-Ya rule: you must meet each person's eyes while clinking glasses in a toast. Otherwise, the ritual has no meaning, it's just pure show. And that is something the Ya-Yas are not.”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Personality

“Let people be, boss; don't open their eyes. And supposing you did, what'd they see? Their misery! Leave their eyes closed, boss, and let them go on dreaming!”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

People, Dreams

“My god, Sage. Your eyes. How have I never noticed them? When you stand in the light. They're amazing… like molten gold. I could paint those… They're beautiful. You're beautiful.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

God, Beauty, Light, Painting

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Housing

“What about King Tut’s tomb?” I protested.
“That boy king?” Zia rolled her eyes. “Boring. You should see some of the good tombs.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Boy

“that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.”

Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

People, Dreams

“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Love, Death

“His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.”

Irvine Welsh (1958) Scottish novelist

Soul, Dance

“Hey, moose!” I screamed.
The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me.
Well done! Horus said. Now we’ll both die with honor!
Shut up, I thought.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Animals

“It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.”

Maya Angelou book Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

Joy

“Nico studied his face – his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackson seemed like a regular guy now, not a mythical figure. Not someone to idolize or crush on.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Guy, Study, Sea

“Child of Hades, what more could I do to you? You are perfect! So much sorrow and pain!’ Nico gasped. His eyes flew open.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Pain, Perfection

“I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft reply.
The sound of glass
speaks quick, disdain
and conceals
what your eyes fight
to explain.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Source: Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1

Fight

“The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

Star, Dead

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

Time

“I knew there was a reason I didnt turn you into a banana slug."
Leonid'd eyes widened. "No banana slug! Please!"
"It was a compliement, silly. Forbidden is good! Sadie likes forbidden!”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them."

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Clean Sweep

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 2 : 'Work', p.45

Men, Law, Beauty

“Anthony grinned at her, knowing that would probably infuriate her all the more. "My eyes have been a-wandering, as you put it, for the last nineteen years. Give them a rest, Roslynn. They settled on you and don't want to move on.”

Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) American writer

Source: Tender Rebel

“So just look mean and don’t make eye contact with anyone. (Syn)
Gee, hon, you take me to the most wonderful places. (Shahara)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Fire

“I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we’re not here.” Lawe
tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. “Stay real quiet.
Don’t make eye contact.”
They all nodded.”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Mercury's War

Law, Drink

“You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. […] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Variant: After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.
Source: Where Rainbows End

“Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"

Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd… prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.”

Jim Butcher book Ghost Story

Source: Ghost Story

Idea, Evil

“So," I (Percy) said glumly. "We're going to get a ride from your brother, huh?"
Artemis's silver eyes gleamed. "Yes, boy. You see, Bianca di Angelo is not the only one with
an annoying brother. It's time for you to meet my irresponsible twin, Apollo.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Boy, Time

“A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul.
I'm dying, Landon.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Sadness, Smile, Soul

“The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open”

Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream

Source: I Have a Dream

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Way, Understanding, Flying

“I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Inferno

Life, Way

“Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too," Eve said.
The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it.
"What? It's what girls do. Get over it.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Girl, Boy

“I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Help

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: Fire with Fire

Life

“Oh. "So the best way to fight you is to strip naked and attack?"
His eyes flashed with a wicked light. "Yes. You should try it and see what happens.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Way, Light, Fight

“And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Life, Soul, Search, Happiness

“And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.”

Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter

Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

People, Stupidity, Beauty, Girl

“Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God

“Rose. Roza. Open your eyes." I've never heard heard his voice so strained, so frantic. "Don't go to sleep on me. Not yet.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Sleep

“Maybe I want a black eye. Did you think of that?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Thinking

“When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Love, Hate, World, Faith

“Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Time

“In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

God, Children, Beauty

“Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been”

Angela Carter book Wise Children

Source: Wise Children

Star, Sense

“To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Love, Painting

“I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: Storm Front

Thinking

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Smile, Hell, Kiss, Light

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