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Quotes About Eyes

The woman who'd shot him had eyes the color of the sky above the moors just after a storm: blue-gray sky after black clouds. That particular shade of blue had been one of the few things his mother had found beautiful in England. Raphael agreed. Despite the fear that shone in them, Lady Jordan's blue-gray eyes were beautiful.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Suddenly, without preliminary fluttering or blinking, the closed eyes opened. They were a true, clear green, an unusual color for human eyes. They looked translucent, like seawater, and they focused on Jean with an expression of concentrated malevolence made all the more alarming by contrast with the placidity of the face in which they were set. The woman's compressed lips parted. "Here, too, O Lord?" a plaintive voice inquired.
~ Elizabeth Peters
He seemed a jovial, simple man, and had the eyes of a nice dog.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
She was not the audience to which he played, but she was the profound intelligence that heard him. She drew him in with her great bruised eyes, and his music she drank, and it was wine to her thirst.
~ Ellis Peters
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is in the greenwood, dawn is in the skies, And Marian is waiting with a glory in her eyes.
~ Alfred Noyes
It is a common trick of Nature – and a profoundly significant one – that, just when despair is deepest, she waves a wand before the weary eyes and does her best to waken an impossible hope.
~ Algernon Blackwood
His most vulnerable points, moreover, are said to be the feet and the eyes; the feet, you see, for the lust of wandering, and the eyes for the lust of beauty. The poor beggar goes at such a dreadful speed that he bleeds beneath the eyes, and his feet burn.
~ Algernon Blackwood
It is possible, he said, to be in love not with someone but with their eyes. I mean, with how eyes that aren't yours let you see where you are, who you are.
~ Ali Smith
Is it possible, he said, to be in love not with someone but with their eyes. I mean, with how eyes that aren't yours let you see where you are, who you are…We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters…It is the only responsibility memory has. But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quote regardless.
~ Ali Smith
It is possible, he said, to be in love not with someone but with their eyes. I mean, with how eyes that aren't yours let you see where you are, who you are.
~ Ali Smith
all I could think of all that week was flowers for breath and flowers for eyes and mouths full of flowers, armpits of them, the backs of knees, laps, groins overflowing with flowers and all I could draw was leaves and flowers, the whorls of roses, the dark foliage.
~ Ali Smith
I am a skeleton. I have a skull with an artifice of fire in its eyes.
~ Alice Notley
I shiver and Tom wakes. It's light enough to see his eyes open. "Are you cold?" he says. "Baby, are you cold?" He turns so that his arms are around me again. Baby, are cold?-and the ball of hurt inside me swells.
~ Alison McGhee
All I have to do is just look into a dog's eyes. The eyes of a Saint Bernard, an English mastiff, a shar-pei, a Jack Russell terrier, a French bulldog, a corgi, a pug. A lot of the time I think all you have to do is look into any dog's eyes, and there'll you'll find honesty; there, I think so much of the time, you'll find the truth.
~ Alison Pace
How long you going to blame me, Connor?" Green eyes stared by him, searching. "Is Finn back and I just haven't seen her yet?" He scowled. "You know she's not here." "Then I still blame you.
~ Aliyah Burke
The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane.
~ Ally Carter
When Zach said, "Im going to kill Dr. Steve." It wasn't the angered threat of a worried boy; it was the calm, cool statement of an operative trained to do exactly that. And that, I think, is why it scared me. But it wasn't as terrifying as the look in Bex's eyes when she said, "Not if I find him first.
~ Ally Carter
In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.
~ Ally Carter
But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.
~ Alyson Noel
Saw you with my brother." His gaze moves over me. "Guess that explains your attraction to me-he looks just like me." His cocky grin fading when I roll my eyes in reponse. "Well,you sure spend a lot of time thinking about me-searching for me-don't you,Santos?" he says,determined to make me admit the ridiculous. "Don't flatter yourself,Coyote. It's an occupational hazard.Purely job related.
~ Alyson Noel
All forms of beauty are poignant, Japanese beauty particularly so. That lily-white complexion, those mellow eyes, the inimitable shape of the nose, the well-defined contours of the mouth, and the complicated sweetness of the features are enough, by themselves, to eclipse the most perfectly assembled faces.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Sus ojos muy abiertos contemplaban el espectáculo más fascinante del mundo: la muerte blanca, resplandeciente, que el universo le mandaba en forma de rompecabezas, piezas sueltas de un hermoso misterio.
~ Amelie Nothomb