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Quotes About Face

Joseph stood, his gaze traveling over Connor's clean-shaven face and hairless chest, his lips curving in a grin. "What's this? The Cub is not so furry.
~ Pamela Clare
Through the frost-covered glass, he could just make out a woman's face. She rolled down the window. "Jack West?" He found himself looking into a pair of familiar green eyes. Her dark hair was longer than the last time he'd seen her, and there were lines of weariness on her face. Still, he recognized her immediately. "Well, hello, there, SA Killeen. It seems you've run into a little trouble.
~ Pamela Clare
His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.
~ Patricia Briggs
I put my cell phone in my back pocket (a habit that has destroyed two phones so far) and tried to blank my face. It wouldn't help with the werewolves, who would be able to smell my distress, but at least I wouldn't have complete strangers stop and ask me what was wrong.
~ Patricia Briggs
My mother's voice whispered in my ears. Look now to your da. If you've never seen rage on his face, you have now. Those old fools won't know what hit them.
~ Patricia Briggs
Just a minute," I said. I bent over and picked it up in my right hand . . . When I woke up, Shiara was dripping water on my face.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
She tried to keep her smile from stretching too wide. It was daylight, and their ships weren't passing. They were standing face to face—
~ Unknown
Conor furrowed his forehead. "You're making that up.") (The monster's face went stormy. You dare to question me, boy?)
~ Patrick Ness
over his own dark Cealdish beard. "Nothing like your marvelous facebear,
~ Patrick Rothfuss
BEFORE THE BODY, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts.
~ Paul Auster
The face that feigns acknowledgment that the better man got the promotion, even though deep down you and they both know that you really are the better man and that the best man is the woman on the second floor.
~ Paul Beatty
I CAN STILL SEE YOU: an echo that can be groped towards with antenna words, on the ridge of parting. Your face quietly shies when suddenly there is lamplike brightness inside me, just at the point where most painfully one says, never.
~ Paul Celan
Moriarty will have no option now but to move forward, because he knows what we have done, what we are capable of with those weapons – and he knows we are right on his heels. He will have no choice but to come out of hiding... To finally face Holmes once more!
~ Paul Kane
RETORT "Thou art a fool," said my head to my heart, "Indeed, the greatest of fools thou art, To be led astray by the trick of a tress, By a smiling face or a ribbon smart;" And my heart was in sore distress. Then Phyllis came by, and her face was fair, The light gleamed soft on her raven hair; And her lips were blooming a rosy red. Then my heart spoke out with a right bold air: "Thou art worse than a fool, O head!
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar
Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
His face is a stage on which heartbreaking emotions play out. Sometimes he looks lost, a boy alone. Other moments he seems sad, his gaze downcast. Other times, terror bolts across his face, like a child who wakes from a bad dream confused by what he has seen. He has not spoken much of his time alone.
~ Peter A. Levine
Even a cigar company joined the rush to praise Steffens by naming a cigar after him and featuring his face on the box.
~ Unknown
smiles and friendly nods are like fabric softeners for the face.
~ Peter Hedges
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
~ Genesis 32:30
When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
~ Genesis 38:15
But Judah replied, “The man solemnly warned us, ëYou will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.í
~ Genesis 43:3
But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ëYou will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.í”
~ Genesis 43:5
Then he washed his face and came back out. Regaining his composure, he said, “Serve the meal.”
~ Genesis 43:31
But you said to your servants, ëUnless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.í
~ Genesis 44:23