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• Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Natalie Goldberg (2009). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace. I am a snowflake. A wisp of eiderdown, liberated from gravity. My body is light. Ephemeral. My head is light. I want to sway beneath the weight of air, dizzy with thought. Light filters through my closed eyelids. The sun, chasing shadows, tells me I'm not afloat in dreams.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Winter, Light

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Home

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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• Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Blessed, Mind, Skins

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• The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Sorrow, Tears

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

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• O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
  The poets labouring all their days
  To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
  Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Women

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• A tear that trembles for a little while
  Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world
  Wavers within its circle like a dream,
  Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb
  Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Circles, Tears

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Life And Death, Lines, Between Life And Death

  Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket

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• I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat

  Eduardo Galeano

  Sleep, Stuck, Throat

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• Staring at him the way she might stare at a beloved place she was not sure she would ever see again, trying to commit the details to memory, to paint them on the backs of her eyelids that she might see it when she shut her eyes to sleep.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Sleep, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• You’re too visible, Albert,” Hadrian explained. “Can’t afford to have our favorite noble hauled to some dungeon where they cut off your eyelids or pull off your fingernails until you tell them what we’re up to.” “But if they torture me, and I don’t know the plan, how will I save myself?” “I’m sure they’ll believe you after the fourth nail or so,” Royce said with a wicked grin.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Believe, Cutting, Wicked

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.25, Ridan Publishing

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• Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

  David Zindell

  Real, Mind, Belief

  David Zindell (2017). “The Broken God”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here, against his body, was the only place in which I belonged. The only place I had ever wanted to be. We lay in silence for a while, holding each other, our skin merging, our breathing synchronized. I felt as if silence might allow the moment to last for ever, which would still not be enough.

  S.J. Watson

  Home, Eye, Breathing

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• Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. "Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?

  Eoin Colfer

  Hands, Captains, Rogues

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• She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?

  Cornelia Funke

  Dream, Dust, Gold

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• This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter

  Tom Robbins

  Jezebel, Glitter, Rooms

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.9, Bantam

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• I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.

  Jonathan Raban

  Funny Inspirational, Sleep, Looks

  Jonathan Raban (1981). “Old Glory, an American Voyage”, Simon & Schuster

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• To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.

  Shay Mitchell

  Eye, Tea, Bags

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• After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

  Jodi Picoult

  Tongue, Forget, Tattooed

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Sleep, Eye, Perfect

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.

  Suzanne Collins

  Voice, Seductive, Secret

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.211, Scholastic Inc.

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• Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
  may your eyelids never flutter into the empty
  distance.
  Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.

  Pablo Neruda

  Famous Love, Beach, Distance

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.

  William Goldman

  Strong, Morning, Prayer

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, www.cnn.com. 1973.

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• You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like that, unguarded, than when you’re awake. When you’re awake you’re like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can’t reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.

  Nicole Krauss

  Sleep, Eye, Doors

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