Quotes about eye
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“Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

Cry

“Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears." Saiman”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Women, Men

“Fear you?" she said without thinking. "Good God, I would never do that."

Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. "No, you wouldn't," he agreed. "You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: It Happened One Autumn

God, Fear, Smile, Thinking

“We take everything for granted, but when I'm with Angeline, I see the world through new eyes. She makes my world better. It's why she's so great.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

World

“Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Water, Time

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Love, Way, Personality

“Adrian rolled his eyes. "I'm kind of surprised to findlecturing about underage girls.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Girl

“Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Pain

“Looks aren't all there is in the world, my lady. They are certainly no protection against being alone. Hearts never see through the eyes. (Sebastian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dragonswan

World, Heart

“His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.”

William Gibson book Neuromancer

Source: Neuromancer

Training

“The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

Life, Way, Distant

“Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

Death

“At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Personality

“Well alright then," His eyes glittered. "I get my kicks whipping woman I have sex with and you're next on my list. Now I'm going to take a shower.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

Sex

“Magnus glared at him out of gold-green eyes. “If I wanted to lie on a couch and
complain to someone about my parents, I’d hire a psychiatrist.”
“Ah,” said Jace. “But my services are free.”
“I heard that about you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Lie, Parent

“Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

“And those who saw, it did surprise,
Such drops could fall from human eyes.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Love

“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Challenger Deep

World

“If he’d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I’d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he was Barrons and I was Mac, and a blossoming of lust was about as likely as orchids blooming in Antarctica”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Girl

“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

People, Truth, Feeling

“Jenny, if you're so convinced I'm a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?'

She looked me straight in the eye and smiled.

'I like your body,' she said.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

Smile

“Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

Boy

“Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley."
"Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cats

“Beauty! Terrible Beauty!
A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

Beauty

“Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore."

Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

Evil

“I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

Boy, Princess

“Because when I look at you, I forget everything. I lose all track of what I’m saying or doing. I can see only your eyes.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

Forgetting

“The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

“When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Books, Thinking

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?”

Andrew Vachss (1942) American writer and lawyer

Source: Safe House

Love, World, Cats, Time

“To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Beauty

“sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk.”

James Redfield book The Celestine Prophecy

Source: The Celestine Prophecy

People

“You said there was nothing in the world you wanted" The Queen's eyes glittered. "When you imagine your life without him, do you still feel the same?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Life, World, Feeling, Imagination

“I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Variant: I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
Source: Black Magic Sanction

Love, Time, Cry

“If your eyes could speak, what would they say?.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

“I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Heart, Parting

“I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.”
Then I plunged the stake into his chest.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Variant: I look him in the eye. "I will always love you.
Source: Blood Promise

Love

“Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams,
Lover of loneliness, and wandering,
Of upcast eye, and tender pondering!
Thee must I praise above all other glories
That smile us on to tell delightful stories.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Love, Smile, Dreams, Lovers

“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”

Gregory Maguire (1954) Novelist

Source: Mirror Mirror

Light

“We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Color, Way, Idea

“She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!"
"Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!”

Mildred D. Taylor book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Hurt

“What colors are the eyes of Anubis?"

"Brown… Duh.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Color

“Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

World, Thinking, Heart

“Magnus wants to shout at me, don’t you, Magnus?” (Jace)
“Yes,” Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl.
-pg.275-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Tear

“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?"
I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?"
He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: Just One Wish

People

“The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Death, Truth

“In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Imagination, Chance, Future

“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Color, Forgetting

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”

James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet

Heart, Madness

“Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.”

Augusten Burroughs book Dry

Source: Dry

Wisdom, Age, Way, Time

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

Roald Dahl book The Minpins

The Minpins (1991)

Secret, World

“I’m gonna have to get my eyes checked. I can’t see crap until it’s right in front of me”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

“When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The warrior's Apprentice

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

Faith, Way, Time

“Helloooo." Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. "I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Books, Drawing, Happiness

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

Source: Nature

Health

“I like what you've done to your face," Ben said, tapping his eye.”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Love, Bird

“… Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch.
It was Zsadist.
His eyes closed, his head back, his mouth wide open, he sang.
The scarred one, the souless one, had the voice of an angel.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

Angels

“Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair -- Look at what's really there.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Smile

“For years I have had no mirror; I have learned to make do. The eyes of another can be a mirror more effective than water. If you will look at me, I can see my reflection in yours”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Learning, Water

“Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Smile, Distant, Evil

“The farm god rolled his eyes. He pointed at the corn plant, and BAM! Nico di Angelo appeared in an exposion of corn silk. Nico looked around in panic. "I-I had the weirdest nightmare about popcorn.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

God, Appearance

“What light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart, Liberty is to the soul of man. Without it, there come suffocation, degradation and death.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

Love, Death, Soul, Light

“I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward.”

Janet Evanovich Three to Get Deadly

Source: Three to Get Deadly

“Well. Like I said, I dont want to fight anymore. I dont want us to hate each other. And… well… I squeezed my eyes shut and then opened them. No matter how I fee about us… I want you to be happy”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Hate, Fight, Happiness

“Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again.
It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

World, Thinking

“Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.”

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

“I’m Angelina,” she says. “Are you here to save us?” I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes.
“You’re right, Angelina - I’m here to save you.”
“Can you? Really?”
“I’ll try,” I say and the girl smiles.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Smile, Hope, Girl

“It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

World

“Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.”

Salman Rushdie book The Moor's Last Sigh

Source: The Moor's Last Sigh

Love, Life, Hope

“what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

Heart

“Welcome home, Rachel mariana Morgan, he said, his goat-slitted eyes holding a new, dangerous light. It's a pleasure to finally meet you.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Pale Demon

Pleasure, Home, Light

“A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Dark Eyes
Variant: All I see are dark eyes.

“Tall, aren't you?" she said.
"I didn't mean to be."
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.”

Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep

Source: The Big Sleep

Thinking

“If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson The Rhodora

The Rhodora
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Beauty

“Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being trusted.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Water

“The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the music breathing from her face, 19
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,—
And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!”

George Gordon Byron book The Bride of Abydos

Canto I, Stanza 6; this can be compared to: "The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love", Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy I. 3, line 16; also: "Oh, could you view the melody / Of every grace / And music of her face", Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts; "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)

Love, Music, Soul, Light