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Quotes About Gaze

The urge to kill is shown by glares, not by words.
~ Unknown
He continues looking at me in this strange way, as though he's never seen me before or as though he thought he might never see me again.
~ Holly Black
Cardan's gaze catches mine, and I can't help the evil smile that pulls up the corners of my mouth. His eyes are bright as coals, his hatred a living thing, shimmering in the air between us like the air above black rocks on a blazing summer day.
~ Holly Black
Locke brings me a thimbleful of liquor, and I take a tiny scalding sip for the sake of politeness. I start coughing immediately. At that moment, Cardan's gaze goes to me. His eyes are barely open, but I can see the shine of them, wet as tar. He watches me as the girl kisses his mouth, watches me as she slides her hand beneath the hem of his silly, ruffly shirt.
~ Holly Black
How are you?" he asked softly. "Well," Tana said. "Every new outfit I get, I manage to ruin within a few hours." His grin was immediate, his gaze going to her dress and then away. "Leather wipes down.
~ Holly Black
You're scheming,' the Ghost says, noticing my gaze. ... 'I'm always scheming,' I return.
~ Holly Black
He cuts his gaze toward his unpredictable mortal High Queen, whose wild brown hair is blowing around her face, whose amber eyes are alight when she looks at him. They are two people who ought to have, by all rights, remained enemies forever. He can't believe his good fortune, can't trace the path that got him here.
~ Holly Black
I look into his eyes. His hand slides to my hip, as though he might pull me closer. For a dizzy, stupid moment, something seems to shimmer in the air between us. page 98
~ Holly Black
The girl had hair the deep aqua of the sea, drawn back with combs of coral. Her dress was grey sharkskin, and her brief curtsy was that of someone who had never questioned her own value. Her gaze swept the room with undisguised contempt.
~ Holly Black
I stare up, but whatever riddle is in the stars, I can't read it.
~ Holly Black
I feel his gaze on my back, pricking the hairs on my neck. It is all I can do not to run.
~ Holly Black
His every movement is languorous. It feels dangerous to rest my gaze on him for too long, as though he is so thoroughly debauched that it might be contagious.
~ Holly Black
After the snows of Siberia, a man may well find merit in these black eyes of mine, which, as you used to say, ripened any fruit that I gazed upon.
~ Honore de Balzac
exotrophia: one eye looked ahead normally, while the other pointed outward.
~ Lincoln Child
Which are more full of fate: The stars, or those sad eyes?
~ Unknown
There is a look in his eye, a heavy look that makes him seem older, as though in one night he has lived one hundred lifetimes. And it makes him appear even more handsome.
~ Lisa Ann Sandell
I've always started every day by going to the window for a glimpse of the sky. But now I won't have to." "Why not?" She asked softly. "Because I'll see the blue of your eyes instead." "How romantic you are," she murmured with a grin, kissing him gently. "But don't worry. I won't tell anyone.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Sam was waiting for her,his gaze sweeping over her. "Looks great." "I look like a geek," Lucy said. "I smell like a brewery. And I need a bra." "My dream date.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Hardy Cates," I said, coming into the room, "you behave, or I'll step on your tube." The nurse seemed taken aback by my unsympathetic bedside manner. But Hardy's gaze met mine in a moment of bright, hot voltage, and he relaxed, reassured in a way that cooing sympathy could never have done. "That only works if it's a breathing tube," he told me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Those blue eyes glinted with uncivilized suggestion. A faint smile was tucked in the corner of his wide mouth. Definitely wouldn't want to be alone in a room with that guy, I thought. His gaze moved downward in lazy inspection, returned to my face, and he gave me one of those respectful nods that Texan men had raised to an art form.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.
~ Jeff Lindsay
After the first roll of her eyes the Object resettled her gaze on mine, and then what she was feeling showed only there, in the green depths her eyes revealed. Otherwise she was motionless. Only my hand moved, and my feet on the rail, pushing the swing. This went on for three minutes, or five, or fifteen. I have no idea. Time disappeared. Somehow we were still not quite conscious of what we were doing. Sensation dissolved straight into forgetting.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
the liberty of the soul is lost through the windows of the eyes
~ Jerome
Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.
~ Jerry Spinelli