Quotes About Gaze

The veiled woman is not simply an obstacle in the field of visibility and control, but her veiled presence also seems to provide the Western subject with a condition which is the inverse of Bentham's omnipotent gaze. The loss of control does not imply a mere loss of sight, but a complete reversal of positions: her body completely invisible to the European observer except for her eyes, 'the veiled woman can see without being seen'" (p.43).

Porque o Pintalgato chegava ao poente e espreitava o lado de lá. Namoriscando o proibido, seus olhos, pirilampiscavam.

Em contrapartida, os olhos humanos roubam-me a alma, quanto mais humano o olhar mais eu me converto em bicho.

Los habitantes del Sol lanzan sobre nosotros una mirada impávida: Pertenecemos definitivamente a la Tierra Y allí nos pudriremos, mi amor imposible, Jamás nuestros magullados cuerpos se volverán luz.

Why are you naked?" "The better to feed you, m'dear." He pointed between his legs and my gaze roved along his cock. Then I saw his forefinger tapping his inner thigh. "Femoral artery." "Riiight. And the major vein in your neck wasn't good enough because… ?" One black brow winged up and those delicious lips curved into a naughty smile. "Ah. Because then I wouldn't have had an excuse to get naked.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

He casts a sheep's eye at the wench.

Nos miramos a los ojos con una de esas miradas que desnudan las almas, nos vimos éstas al desnudo

No, no es que me miró, es que me envolvió en su mirada; y no es que creí en Dios, sino que me creí un dios

This sound, the sound of her own voice, felt familiar, not because it was her own voice but because it reminded her of all the times she'd gone to the market as a girl - first with her father, later by herself as a young woman, then as a lover yearning for the gaze of her beloved.

Ico stared at Yorda's face. It was beautiful. He didn't dare breathe for fear of breaking the spell. Her eyes were sparkling. "Thank you.

Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable. "Max?" "Yes?" "Will you remember me?" His heart broke into a thousand pieces. "Always.

Cupping his face in her hands, she looked into eyes that had seen thousands of sunrises before she was even a glimmer in the scheme of the universe. "But you have an advantage," she whispered. "You're a little bit human now.

Mira. Las estrellas combinan con las luces, Liza, mira.

Jesus doesn't just look at us; he looks into us. And if we are willing to hold his gaze, he will burn away what is meaningless and frivolous and contaminating.

If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.

Annie looked into his eyes with their blood-crazed whites and for the first time in her life knew how one might come to believe in the devil.

she hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes.

He was looking at her too hard; his eyes were startling against his dark skin, like burnished bronze, glowing and greening in summer sun.

Her hands were gloved, small for her height-she was five six or seven-and her movements as clean as a poem. I was surprised and not sure why. She felt my gaze and looked up. Grey-blue eyes, soft as dove feathers.

When your king arrives in a blood-splashed boat and departs in a hurry-leaving behind a favoured kinswoman and her household for whom he demands hospitality, you give it. It doesn't matter that she's only ten. It matters that she's the subject of a prophecy and has the most direct and uncanny gaze of any maid you've ever seen, and that one wrong word to the king would mean being staked out for the ravens.

As summer turned to autumn, she hardly dared lift her gaze from the king's face. He gave no sign, but her dreams rang and echoed with danger.

He held her gaze this time, though it made him sweat, and this time it was she who looked away.

She met his gaze, agate to jet. She would not flinch, not even if the water turned into a river of fire. She stepped forward, bent her head, and set her will.