Look At Me Quotes - Page 5

• It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.

  Libba Bray

  Struggle, Trying, Skins

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• So how did he look at me?" "Like it was his birthday and you were the cake.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cake, Looks

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.730, Dell

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• Toward the end of their relationship she'd told him once, "I wish I could give you what you're looking for, but I don't know what it is. There's a part of you that you keep closed off from everyone, including me. Its as if I'm not the one you're really with. Your mind is on someone else." He tried to deny it, but she didn't believe him. "I'm a woman - I know these things. When you look at me sometimes, I know you're seeing someone else. Its like you keep waiting for her to pop out of thin air to take you away from all this.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Air, Giving

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• I don’t like the way he looks at you.” My stomach lurched. “What do you mean? How does he look at me?” “Like you’re not a student and he’s not a teacher.

  P. C. Cast

  Teacher, Mean, Doe

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.490, Macmillan

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• -You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

  Anne Rice

  Ties, Mad, Looks

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• Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.

  Joss Whedon

  Strong, Jobs, Stupid

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Life Serial)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying to make her look at me. That happens in movies - people can feel it when oother people stare at them and they just have to turn around and say something. Either Ivy has a great force field, or my lazer vision isn't very strong.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Strong, Force Fields, Doors

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• If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.. if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got.

  Harper Lee

  Eye, Simple, Thinking

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• And she looks at me with her eyes open wide and a face that says: Oh my God, I'm muckin' around in my sexy Jesus-boots, in my crazy dreamworld, and I've opened the door and let you in on my crazy dreamworld and that's so embarrassing but, actually, who cares? because it's funny.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Sexy, Jesus, Crazy

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.2, Scholastic Inc.

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• I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.

  Veronica Roth

  Looks, Use, Als

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.70, Harper Collins

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• Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

  J. K. Rowling

  Looks, Bills

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.52, Pottermore

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• Andrius turned. His eyes found mine. I'll see you he said. My face didn't wrinkle. I didn't utter a sound. But for the first time in months I cried. Tears popped from their dry sockets and sailed down my cheeks in one quick stream. I looked away. The NKVD called the bald man's name. Look at me wispered Andrius moving close. I'll see you he said. Just think about that. Just think about me bringing you your drawings. Picture it because I'll be there.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.158, Penguin

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• People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Pain, People, Tragedy

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.191, Penguin

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• Then she'll know I'll want to knock her senseless if she so much as looks at me.

  Kristin Cashore

  Looks, Want, Knows

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would never say snog. I would say osculate." She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

  Joe Dunthorne

  Looks, Ifs

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• I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.

  Anne Rice

  Looks, Way, Bears

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.133, Ballantine Books

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• When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a wrinkle and follows it down.

  Markus Zusak

  Moving, Eye, Wrinkles

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.51, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not your color." Pithy. Just to show him that I'd noticed. Or maybe I'd show myself to her and say, "Guess I'm not the only one who uses humans around here." And then I'd summon some of Owain's hounds to chew off the bottom bits of her legs. Then she wouldn't fit just right into his arms. She'd be too short. It'd be like hugging a midget. Nuala- pg. 75

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Unrequited Love, Color, Hug

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.82, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Whenever I look at me, all I see are things I'd like to change.

  Alyson Noel

  Looks

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• People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

  Graham Greene

  Rocks, People, Looks

  Graham Greene (1947). “Brighton rock”

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• But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Thinking, Feet

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.211, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.

  Randy Pausch

  Daughter, Falling In Love, Growing Up

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.

  John Green

  Hands, Long, Looks

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.82, Penguin

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• In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Waiting Rooms, Lasts, Bags

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.69, Granta Books

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• Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Trying, Alternatives, Looks

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.165, Penguin

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