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For she had eyes and chose me.
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eyes
looks
love
love-story
lovers
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William Shakespeare |
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Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.
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eyes
happiness
judgement
movies
society
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Katherine Dunn |
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But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the river. Or a passerby in the mist in a hat. He was exasperated because he didn't know what that look . He put it somewhere between indifference and despair. He didn't know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for primacy. And that despair could never be desperate enough. That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation. That Big God howled like a hot wind, and demanded obeisance. Then Small God (cozy and contained, private and limited) came away cauterized, laughing numbly at his own temerity. Inured by the confirmation of his own inconsequence, he became resilient and truly indifferent. Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered, the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from, poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace, Worse Things kept happening. So Small God laughed a hollow laugh, and skipped away cheerfully. Like a rich boy in shorts. He whistled, kicked stones. The source of his brittle elation was the relative smallness of his misfortune. He climbed into people's eyes and became an exasperating expression.
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despair
desperation
exasperation
eyes
indifference
nationality
peace
personal
public
smallness
war
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Arundhati Roy |
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"Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have."
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eyes
glasses
near-sighted
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.
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eyes
skies
tobias
tris
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Veronica Roth |
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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
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eyes
inspirational
looking
personality
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Ernest Hemingway |
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"We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassinate-" "He isn't mine. man has eyes that change color with the seasons."
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avry
color
eyes
kerrick
seasons
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Maria V. Snyder |
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His blue-green eyes were dark pools of immeasurable depth, pools you could drown yourself in and never again come up for air.
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eyes
romance
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Robert Thier |
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"Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched--by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever." (p.33)"
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apple
asymmetry
atlantic
autumn
blind-man
blossom
bones
clock
colors
depression
eyes
god
horror
journey
left-eye
living-things
madness
mirror
nineteen-years-old
power-of-sight
prayer
questions
sacraments
smile
starlight
tree
wind
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Tim Willocks |
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"So with curious eyes and sick surmise We watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of us Would end the self-same way,
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eyes
hell
oscar-wilde
soul
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Oscar Wilde |
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"Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal. For example, most people consider that the greatest evidence of an event one can obtain is to see it with their own eyes, and in a court of law little is held in more esteem than eyewitness testimony. Yet if you asked to display for a court a video of the same quality as the unprocessed data catptured on the retina of a human eye, the judge might wonder what you were tryig to put over. For one thing, the view will have a blind spot where the optic nerve attaches to the retina. Moreover, the only part of our field of vision with good resolution is a narrow area of about 1 degree of visual angle around the retina's center, an area the width of our thumb as it looks when held at arm's length. Outside that region, resolution drops off sharply. To compensate, we constantly move our eyes to bring the sharper region to bear on different portions of the scene we wish to observe. And so the pattern of raw data sent to the brain is a shaky, badly pixilated picture with a hole in it. Fortunately the brain processes the data, combining input from both eyes, filling in gaps on the assumption that the visual properties of neighboring locations are similar and interpolating. The result - at least until age, injury, disease, or an excess of mai tais takes its toll - is a happy human being suffering from the compelling illusion that his or her vision is sharp and clear. We also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw conclusions and make judgments based on uncertain and incomplete information, and we conclude, when we are done analyzing the patterns, that out "picture" is clear and accurate. But is it?" --
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eyes
perception
reality
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Leonard Mlodinow |
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There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
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brave
courage
deception
eyes
fortitude
grace
inspirational
kind
kindness
life
love
precious
stewardship
world
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Marilynne Robinson |
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She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
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eyes
great-expectations
pretty
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Charles Dickens |
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Love gives you eyes.
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christianity
eyes
inspirational
jesus-shock
love
philosophy
spirituality
theology
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Peter Kreeft |
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The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
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eyes
hopelessness
night
stars
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Elie Wiesel |
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[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
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expression
eyes
hypocrisy
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Charles Dickens |
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Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.
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eyes
pleasure
romance
skin
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Anaïs Nin |
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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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choice
ears
eyes
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.
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eyes
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Neil Gaiman |
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If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.
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edward
eyes
soul
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.
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autumn
description
eyes
grey-eyes
him
open
sky
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Juliet Marillier |
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If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.
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eyes
eyesight
glasses
parenting-tip
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Jeannette Walls |
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I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)
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blink
ears
eyes
heart
hypocrisy
judgement
justice
music
nonfiction
prejudice
science
screens
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Malcolm Gladwell |
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"Oh, now my Erin, she'd smile down on me no matter where I walked." Grandpop smiled that little smile again. "But I'd be separated from her, and I'd feel that separation in my soul, you see?" Nathan shook his head. Grandpop sighed. "You have the Irish eyes, boy. One of these days, you'll see from eyes, not your own, feel with a heart outside your chest. Wild Irish eyes. Nathan. When you love, love well and love true, and take care, lad, because those Irish eyes are windows into not just your own soul, but the soul of the one you love." Grandpop looked out at his Erin's grave. "And when you lose that heart, you can't leave the places where your memories are the best. And if I left her, I'd not be buried beside her."
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elite
eyes
grandpop
irish
leigh
lora
malone
nathan
ops
wild
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Lora Leigh |
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I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?' 'I'm looking now.
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eyes
love
see
seeing
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Toni Morrison |
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For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.
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cold
eyes
morpheus
neil-gaiman
night
sandman
star
stars
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Susanna Clarke |
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Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!
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baby
buy
child
children
cry
crying
dead
death
eyes
glare
glares
glaring
kid
kids
life
money-monetary
plead
pleading
talk
talking
young
young-adults
youth
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V.C. Andrews |
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I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. -
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beauty-in-nature
eyes
gold
riches
wealth
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Mervyn Peake |
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"Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death?
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blue-eyes
breath
death
eyes
fireflies
light
night
sight
spirit
stars
world
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.
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eyes
love
people
story
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Sophie Kinsella |
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What the eyes had seen could not be erased.
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eyes
seen
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Frank Herbert |
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St. John's eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom. He seemed to use them rather as instruments to search other people's thoughts, than as agents to reveal his own: the which combination of keenness and reserve was considerably more calculated to embarrass than to encourage.
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eyes
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Charlotte Brontë |
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But I know Jesus arose. I feel his presence now, here, with me. I see the evidence of his Word everyday. From creation forth, the whole world is witness to God's plan revealed through his Son. From the beginning, he prepared us. In the passing of the seasons; in the way flowers spring forth, die, and drop seeds for life to begin again; in the sunset and sunrise. Jesus' sacrifice is reenacted every day of our lives if we but have the eyes to see.
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die
evidence
eyes
flowers
god
jesus
sacrifice
seasons
sunrise
sunset
witness
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Francine Rivers |
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The speech of God's beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.
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christian
eyes
faith
fountain
girl
god
her
lady
lady-like
life
nice
pretty
speech
woman
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Elizabeth George |
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"He said, "Were he only like his sister--what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of the silver chain about her neck. Her smile is full of comfort and her eyes are kind and happy! How I long to see her!" "Who, sir?" asked Paramore, puzzled. "Why, his sister, John. His sister."
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death
eyes
lady
neil-gaiman
sandman
sister
smile
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Susanna Clarke |
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Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's beautiful woman.
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beautiful
christian
energy
eyes
god
love
mental
physical
strength
toughness
trait
woman
women
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Elizabeth George |
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She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way. My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire--no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.
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eyes
fear
fire
flames
soul
window
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Beth Revis |
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When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.
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christian
eyes
god
inspire
lens
love
men
understand
value
view
women
word
worth
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Elizabeth George |
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We must pay a price if we are to become priceless.
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christian
cost
eyes
faith
gem
god
love
pay
price
priceless
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Elizabeth George |
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[...]when he closed his eyes, the torrent of longing waiting inside was so thick he thought he might drown in it.
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eyes
longing
love
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Aimee Bender |
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He touched her cheek, and he looked into her eyes. He saw his whole world there
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eyes
love
world
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Julia Quinn |
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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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determined
eyes
giving-up
hopeless
iris-murdoch
the-sea-the-sea
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iris murdoch |
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Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.
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adults
child
children
condescension
eyes
incapable
kid
kids
subjects
teens
told
treated
understand
understanding
young-adults
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V.C. Andrews |
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"You're an asshole." "And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head."
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bitch
brittany-ellis
compliment
eyes
smile
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Simone Elkeles |
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Without faith, people perish, and they are perishing before our eyes
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eyes
faith
god
people
way-of-life
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Walker Percy |
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"...I love you," he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. "I'd trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems... you never deserved this... why would anyone do something so terrible!?" A cold chill froze his heart when he saw her empty eyes again. The fluorescent lights in the dim room sparked to life all of a sudden, brightness so sharp that it startled him. In a flash, sharp and sudden, quicker than a lightning strike, the bulbs flickered and exploded with a few jingling pops."
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bulb
death
depressing
dim
electricity
empty
explode
eyes
fluorescent
friendship
grief
heart
hospital
i-love-you
lobotomy
loss
love
mental-hospital
psychosurgery
tragic
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Rebecca McNutt |
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A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.
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blind
body
eyes
face
man
pretty
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Francine Rivers |
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"They met in the library searching for old Sidney Sheldon books. Her silence and calmness drew her to him. His brooding nature drew him to her. Conversations flowed like the waters of a water-fall! And every time they met their conversations sparked flames like the forest caught in a wild fire!
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eyes
reading
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Avijeet Das |
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Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.
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abandonement
adult-subjects
away
children
condescending
condescension
experience
eyes
good-time
idleness
incapable
kids
philosophy
subjects
thumbs
understand
understanding
wisdom
youth
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V.C. Andrews |
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That bowl was special because of the blue. It exactly matched your eyes.
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eyes
ian
ming-bowl
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Jennifer Ashley |
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Her mouth smiled, smiled hard, but her eyes did not smile, ever. Her eyes watched and looked for something they knew they'd never find.
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emotion
eyes
smile
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Mary Gaitskill |
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what good would it do her to have beautiful bright eyes such as these if there is no one to see them.
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|
eyes
inspirational
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José Saramago |
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Jemima was not pretty, the flatness and shortness of her face made her almost plain; yet most people looked twice at her expressive countenance, at the eyes which flamed or melted at every trifle, at the rich colour which came at every expressed emotion into her usually sallow face, at the faultless teeth which made her smile like a sunbeam.
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beautiful
countenance
eyes
jemima-bradshaw
not-pretty
plain
smile
|
Elizabeth Gaskell |
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"Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. "...Callo, I'm so sorry that your life ended up this way," she sighs as she gets out of her side of the car, her feet burning from the cold as her high heels sink into the fallen snow. "Aren't you scared?" "I'm you, Geraldine... I fell into the same trap as you, anyway," Callo answers. His large eyes are shining with tears, but he doesn't seem afraid in the least. "...The dead don't feel anything, you know... not even guilt or regret. So, what is there to be afraid of?"
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apology
dead
death
depressed
depression
die
dying
emotion
eyes
fear
forlorn
forlornness
friend
friendship
guilt
gun
high-heels
kill
lonliness
mental-illness
purse
regret
revolver
tears
trap
usurer
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Rebecca McNutt |
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There was something about those cold, cold eyes that set off sparks in her. Not just sparks. A timber fire. He found something deep inside her that had never been touched before and it ignited just for him.
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eyes
paranormal-romance
shifter
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Christine Feehan |
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Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.
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eyes
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Francine Rivers |
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His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of terror.
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eyes
seeing
terror
vision
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?
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death
design
eyes
fatalism
organs
universe
wings
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James S.A. Corey |
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Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the table for clients to read while waiting for their appointment. On the cover there had been a picture of a well-known politician, a man famous for his rudeness and aggression. She had looked at the eyes--the piercing, accusing eyes, and had seen only an impenetrable, defensive anger. Nothing--no forced smiles nor rehearsed protestation of concern, could cancel out the cold selfishness of those eyes.
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eyes
personality
politicians
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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I closed my eyes then but it was too dark to clearly see that vision that my body would conjure out of blood and the inside of skin when light hit it, but I'd seen it so often, examined it so carefully, that it wasn't hard for me to call to mind.
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call-to-mind
closed-eyes
conjuration
examination
eyes
remember
the-inside-of-skin
too-dark
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China Miéville |