Quotes about face
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“When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.'

Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.

Yes.

I like that a lot.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Death, Stupidity, Feeling, Boy

“So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.'
You're kidding me.'
I shake my head vehemently. 'No. I need to figure out my purpose. Until I do, what's the use of getting up?”

Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

World

“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Peace

“The only thing they had in common was Calypso, and every time Leo thought about that he wanted to punch Percy in the face.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Time

“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”

Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces

Source: The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces

World

“I'm sorry I hurt your hand… with my face."
-Bobby Pendragon”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

Hurt

“Ah, man, when Wolverine grows his face back, he's really gonna be pretty upset.”

Brian Michael Bendis (1967) American comic book writer and artist

Source: The New Avengers, Volume 2: Sentry

“To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

“Nico jumped into the crowd, kicking groins, smacking faces with the flat of his blade, bashing helmets with his pommel. In ten seconds, the Romans all lay groaning and dazed on the ground.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

“Now, leave."
All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza.
"Percy!" Annabeth grabbed him.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Boy

“The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to his troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous fuckery and political weaselocity in the nearby kingdom of the United States.”

Christopher Moore book A Dirty Job

Source: A Dirty Job

“Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Hope, Sister, Country

“Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

“I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

Feeling

“Piper!” Frank yelled. “Counter those empousai! We need some chaos.”

“Thought you’d never ask.” She started catcalling at the female demons: “Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back!”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Teachers, Heart

“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”

Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

Men, Heart, Clothes

“Suicide Note:
The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
-Langston Hughes”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Kiss, Suicide

“This is my social face,” he said lightly. “Don’t confuse it with the animal beneath.”

Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer

Source: Notorious Pleasures

Animals

“A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.”

Robin Schone (1954) American writer

Source: Scandalous Lovers

Life

“Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.”

Shannon Hale River Secrets

Source: River Secrets

Smile, Parting

“That hat looks ridiculous.”
“Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Alloy of Law

Change

“Why are you hanging around, then? Aren't you worried about getting hit?"
"Aw, you'd never hurt me. My face is too pretty.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Hurt

“Is it him?” Dad asked. “Did he get you into trouble?”
“Not me,” Shane said. “I’ve just got that kind of face.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.”

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Love, Peace, Forgiveness, Heart

“Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love’s transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face.”

Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist

Source: Scandal

Love

“Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Dreams, Boy, Sleep

“I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

Love, Life, Fear, Way

“They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Death, Fear

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.”

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic

“Hey, check this weirdo out." Hi was inspecting a bust on the mantel. "This face is ninety percent eyebrow. What do you want to bet he owned slaves?"

Scowling to match the carving's expression, Hi spoke in a gravelly voice.”

Kathy Reichs book Code

Source: Code

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Tear, Night

“You have a book that’s also a face?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Books

“Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: Sweethearts

Life, Time, Speed

“Will had shrugged once, helplessly. He had almost wished Jem would be angry with him. It would have been easier. He'd never felt so small within himself as he did when he faced Jem's expansive kindness.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

Girl, Learning, Time, Personality

“He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.”

Tom Robbins book Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

Stupidity, Way

“How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?”

Michelle Tea (1971) American writer

Beauty, Girl

“A charm invests a face
Imperfectly beheld,—
The lady dare not lift her veil
For fear it be dispelled.

But peers beyond her mesh,
And wishes, and denies,—
Lest interview annul a want
That image satisfies.”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Fear

“He caught me to him, his arms banded tight around me. His face pressed into my throat. "Where do we go from here?"
I held him. "Wherever this takes us. Together.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: Half-Moon Investigations

Life, School

“When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Time, Sincerity

“She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke
"Is it really you?"
Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed?
The man nodded.
His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches.
It is.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Study, Heart

“What you can't run away from, you have to face”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: The Devil's Right Hand

“You've faced horrors in these past weeks… I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.”

Tasha Alexander (1969) American writer

Source: A Fatal Waltz

Feeling, Time, Past

“She was only a prostitute, but she had the nicest face I ever came across.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.”

Cornelia Funke (1958) author

Truth

“What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

Angels

“Jamie shook his head at me admiringly. “And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you’ve a brain as well!” He neatly dodged the blow I aimed at his ear, and grinned at me.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Thinking

“What good was owning the world when he’d have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he’d rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.’ (Aiden)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Upon the Midnight Clear

World, Personality

“A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.”

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch book Venus in Furs

Source: Venus in Furs

Understanding

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”

Nick Hornby book The Polysyllabic Spree

Source: The Polysyllabic Spree

Books

“Jesus watches from the wall,
But his face is cold as stone,
And if he loves me
As she tells me
Why do I feel so all alone?”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

Love, Feeling

“The front door shut, leaving Alec sitting in the half-lit garden, alone. He closed his eyes for a moment, the image of a face hovering behind his lids. Not Jace's face, for a change. The eyes set in the face were green, slit-pupiled. Cat eyes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Cats, Change

“Health makes good propaganda. “'Proof' that women's activities outside the home are detrimental to the health and welfare of themselves, their families and the country as a whole” lent impetus, writes Ann Oakley, to the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity. The ovaries were seen as collective property rather than the woman's own business, as the face and body outline are seen today. Who can argue with health?”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 227

Women, Health, Family, Home

“I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Fear, Nature, Time, Parting

“I don’t have an issue with what you do in the church, but I’m gonna be up in your face if you’re gonna knock on my science classroom and tell me they’ve got to teach what you’re teaching in your Sunday school. Because that’s when we’re gonna fight!”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

School, Science, Fight

“My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned
with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to
the sun.”

Patricia Briggs book Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

Sun

“I turned and faced the Olympians.
"We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“From the look on your face, I'd say you know him."

I nodded. "Sold him a cannoli when I was in high school."

Connie grunted. "Honey, half of all the women in New Jersey have sold him their cannoli”

Janet Evanovich book One for the Money

Source: One for the Money

Women, School

“She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Love, Problem

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Learning

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Variant: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.

Hope, Sun

“I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me… no one can do that.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Love, Forgetting

“I’m not dangerous,” I breathed.

He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.”

And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Kiss

“And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Forgetting

“Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

“I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heart-less robots who protect them and their property.”

Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army

To My People (July 4, 1973)
Source: Assata: An Autobiography

War, Lie, Smile, Heart

“…. it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Death, Suffering

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

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

Nature

“Quiet Prayer:
As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lovers vow. But we are children of a scientific age & have no time for poetry. Still, I offer a quiet prayer of thanks for the sunlight each time I see your face.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Children, Age, Lovers, Time

“She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

“Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place
I rejoice that things are as they are and
I renounce the blessèd face”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Time

“We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

Way, Imagination

“I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

“Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?"
I do face facts," Meg said.
They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Life, People, Thinking

“Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Until You

“Thisabout Tessa. I knew it was."
Will flushed, a wash of color across the pallor of this face. "Not just her."
"But you love her."
Will stared at him. "Of course I do," he said finally. "I had come to think i would never love anyone, but I love her.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love, Color, Thinking

“The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered gleam of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Death, Spring, Drink

“… she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see…”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

People

“There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.”

Kris Radish (1953) American novelist

Source: The Shortest Distance Between Two Women

Sun, Joy, Happiness

“It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there.”

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

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Love, Light, Personality

“Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.”

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Girl

“Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Death, Hope

“Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

Fools

“A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled.
“Shoo,” Eric said, making an imperious gesture with his hand.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

Dogs

“Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

Water, Loneliness

“He took her face in his bloody hands. "I’ll come and find you wherever you are. I’ll not stop breathing until I do. So you’re going to have to promise me that you won’t lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Hope

“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Lie

“But if you can confront your inner demons—"

"I did confront my inner demon. I punched him in the face and he exploded."

Valkyrie had to laugh. "But now he's back."

"Of course he's back. He's resourceful. He isinner demon, after all.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

“You look like Curran. You have that pissy exasperated look on your face.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“Pain fades,” I said slowly. “But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here?” The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu’s face blazing with fury.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Pain

“I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Family, Bird, Parent, Siblings

“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Feeling, Understanding

“As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.”

Carter G. Woodson book The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

Change

“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned.
'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.”

Malorie Blackman book Boys Don't Cry

Source: Boys Don't Cry

Men, Boy, Tear, Cry

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Quotes about face
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