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Quotes About Eyes

You're kind of a psycho. I get that." "I might be," Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. "You're one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now." Claire blinked. "Archaeologist." Monica's eyes turned winter cold. "Oh, you'd better start running away now.
~ Rachel Caine
Who's Myrnin? Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss. You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?
~ Rachel Caine
From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.
~ Rachel Cohn
With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.
~ Dean Koontz
Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.
~ Dean Koontz
Then she looked into the shepherd's eyes and saw what is to be seen in every dog's eyes if it has not been broken by a cruel master: trust, strength without arrogance, a desire to give and receive affection—and an honesty so pure that deception, if contemplated, cannot be perpetrated.
~ Dean Koontz
In nightmares, we can't look into our own eyes except by indirection, perhaps because we fear discovering that therein lie the worst monsters plaguing us.
~ Dean Koontz
She has these dark eyes as deep as galaxies. It's easy to get lost in them.
~ Dean Koontz
Now Michael J. watches her from high on the sycamore.
~ Dean Koontz
Of all the possible dramatic entrances that might then have occurred, none would have been more likely to convince most of those assembled that Death itself had come among them than did the abrupt entrance of Jimmy Two Eyes.
~ Dean Koontz
This is an example of why travel is important. It changes perspective. It alters your eyes and ears, puts unexpected notions into your head, provides aha moments.
~ Delia Ephron
Well, it's very much for each person to experience alone," he said, and whatever truth he meant to get at, his eyes were the visible scars of it.
~ Denis Johnson
whatever truth he meant to get at, his eyes were the visible scars of it.
~ Denis Johnson
Those eyes, Teddy thought. Even frozen in time, they howled. You wanted to climb inside the picture and say, 'No, no, no. It's okay, it's okay. Sssh.' You wanted to hold her until the shakes stopped, tell her that everything would be all right.
~ Dennis Lehane
I stared down the slim barrel of a gun, looked into eyes rabid with fear and hatred, and saw my reflection. Pulled the trigger to make it go away. I heard the echoes of my gunshots, smelled the cordite, and in the smoke, I still saw my reflection and knew I always would.
~ Dennis Lehane
It's an island, boss. They'll always find us." Teddy met Chuck's eyes and nodded. For the first time since they'd met, he could see fear in Chuck's eyes, his jaw trying to tighten against it.
~ Dennis Lehane
When she found his eyes, hers were fuller and sharper, lit with something that had entered the world centuries before civilized things. "I get off at midnight," she said.
~ Dennis Lehane
But in those final seconds, a catalogue of emotion found his eyes. There was dismay. Self-pity. Terror. An abandonment so total it took thirty years off his life and turned him into a ten-year-old before her eyes.
~ Dennis Lehane
Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…
~ Diana Gabaldon
Roger, listening intently, couldn't keep from asking a question at this point. Is it true Colonel Stark said 'Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes?' Lee coughed discreetly. Well sir. I couldn't say for sure as no one said that, but I didn't hear it myself. Mind, I DID hear one colonel call out, 'Any whoreson fool wastes his powder afore the bastards are close enough to kill is gonna get his musket shoved up his arse butt-first!
~ Diana Gabaldon
His own eyes were soft and dreamy, cloudy as a trout pool in the rain.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The truth is always of use, madonna," he answered, eyes fixed on the slender stream. "It has the value of rarity, you know.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A standing cock is quite blind, my dear," he said at last, eyes still shut. "Surely you know that, physician that you are.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Have you anything to say to me now, Madam?" he demanded. "Your wig is crooked," I said, and closed my eyes again.
~ Diana Gabaldon