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Quotes About Watching

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your 'spiritual security'—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame.
~ Mitch Albom
This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your 'spiritual security'—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame." He shot me a look. "Not work," he added.
~ Mitch Albom
if they had but waited and watched their relationship would have flowered again, and so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born. Jealousy
~ Mohsin Hamid
So the next morning, I had the deeply wretched experience of seeing Prince Marek stop outside the tower doors to look up to my window and blow me a cheerful and indiscreet kiss. I'd been watching only to be sure he actually left; it took nearly all the caution left in me not to throw something down at his head, and I don't mean a token of my regard.
~ Naomi Novik
As happy as I would be to forgo the very doubtful pleasure of watching you flop about like an exhausted eel over the least cantrip," he bit out, "we've already seen the consequences of leaving you to your own devices.
~ Naomi Novik
She was thinner than she had been. The thing ate only sparingly. Enough to keep Kasia alive, not enough to keep me from watching her wear away, her body growing gaunt and her face hollow-cheeked.
~ Naomi Novik
I'd been watching only to be sure he actually left; it took nearly all the caution left in me not to throw something down at his head, and I don't mean a token of my regard.
~ Naomi Novik
It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom.
~ Naomi Wolf
watching the steam rise from my clothes like a fleeing soul.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The stars are filming us for no one.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
Upon leaving the dining room an hour later, she lingered on the porch for a few minutes, watching couples dance. As a red-haired young man began to walk toward Nancy with an invitation in his eyes for her to dance, she hastily went to her room.
~ Carolyn Keene
I was interested in watching it; I wasn't interested necessarily in performing. So I'm grateful to kind of find that passion myself, as an adult, because it was really mentally strenuous, and I don't think I would have been mentally equipped for it, honestly.
~ Zoe Perry
HQ kind of hearkens back to that old method of watching live television, when you couldn't DVR it.
~ Scott Rogowsky
The DVR thing has rocked my world. Being on the road, I used to not keep up with any shows. Now I got a DVR, so I'm watching everything: 'CSI: Miami,' my favorites 'Criminal Minds' and 'The Mentalist.' I like some of the HBO stuff, 'Entourage' and 'Eastbound & Down.' My wife got me into the 'Grey's Anatomy' deal, so I'm watching that.
~ Jason Aldean
I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.
~ Daniela Ruah
Mrs. Leeds was lovely, wasn't she? You turned on the light after you cut his throat so Mrs. Leeds could watch him flop, didn't you? It was maddening to have to wear gloves when you touched her, wasn't it?
~ Thomas Harris
Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says 'try to tickle me.
~ Thomas Pynchon
watching his son in quick pulses of attention.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says try to tickle me. •
~ Thomas Pynchon
People headed off to bed earlier than usual, no doubt exhausted by watching the crew work all day.
~ Kenneth Oppel
great sport, during their few idle hours, of sitting in the house's green-shuttered windows and watching the doings at headquarters through opera glasses, then offering commentary to passing police officials.
~ Caleb Carr
It was electrifying the way he watched her so carefully that he forgot himself.
~ Cammie McGovern
I imagine this is how it must be with our ancestors. They watch us closely, full of love and concern, sometimes whispering encouragement through a crack, but mostly just satisfied to know that we are happy.
~ Camron Wright