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• Oh, God. I'm in big trouble. Because I'm staring. I can't keep my eyes from ogling his chiseled triceps and biceps and every other "eps ' he has. The butterflies in my stomach have just multiplied tenfold as my wandering gaze meets his.

  Simone Elkeles

  Butterfly, Eye, Biceps

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.

  Karen White

  Decision, Vision, New Life

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• Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. He shrugged

  John Green

  Eye, Winning, Boys

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.172, Penguin

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• She chews her lip, staring into my eyes. "Okay... Why did you kiss me in Austin?" I laugh softly and she frowns. "Sorry. That one's too easy." My gaze flicks to her mouth and back. "I'd wanted to kiss you ever since Quinton suggested playing spin the bottle, and by that night in your room, I'd run out of willpower to fight it.

  Tammara Webber

  Running, Sorry, Eye

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.328, Tammara Webber

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• "I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say, "I love you."

  Veronica Roth

  Love You, Hands, Waiting

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, May 1, 2012.

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• All he said was, "Here, have your dinfast. Then we can start packing." "Dinfast," Nick repeated. "Dinner and breakfast!" Alan said triumphantly. "Like brunch." Nick subjected him to a long, judgemental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Long, Judgemental, Breakfast

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares.

  Alex Garland

  Dream, Dope, Games

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• I saw that she was crying. Before I knew it, I was kissing her. Others on the platform were staring at us, but I didn't care about such things anymore. We were alive, she and I. And all we had to think about was continuing to live.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kissing, Thinking, Alive

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• I really think you stare at yourself and you see things.

  Drake

  Humble, Thinking, Self Perception

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• Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.

  Christopher Pike

  Flower, Long, Sometimes

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a broad stretch of sea. I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging with the gray sea off on the horizon. It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Rain, Moving

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• If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

  Cory Doctorow

  Long, Cynical, Negative

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.43, Macmillan

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• I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

  Charles Dickens

  Want, Faces, Misery

  Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.321, Oxford University Press

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• For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Hollies, Arms, Necks

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.355, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It’s good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Epic, Doors

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• Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be... enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.

  J.R. Ward

  Men, Adoration, Stills

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.679, Penguin

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• There was Layla in the fullness of her lips, Lulu in the thick waves of her hair, Lu Xin in the intensity of her hazel eyes, Lucia in their twinkle. She was not alone. Maybe she never would be alone again. There, in the mirror, was every incarnation of Lucinda staring back at her and wondering, "What is to become of us? What about our history, and our love?

  Lauren Kate

  Eye, Mirrors, Hair

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.976, Delacorte Press

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• I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Mirrors, Who I Am

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.480, Scholastic Inc.

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• And then when she takes him through the whole wine tasting process, finishing with a long, languid taste that she really enjoyed “she opened her eyes and saw Nick staring at her. “I feel like I need a cigarette and a shower after watching that.

  Julie James

  Wine, Eye, Long

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• There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favorite. Van Gogh comes in second, but he really was batshit insane.

  Kevin Hearne

  Thinking, Insane, Twenties

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.12, Del Rey

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• I swear, I almost died back there on that ship, you know." He let her hand go, but he was staring at her, almost as if he meant to memorize her face. " I know," he said. "everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, Ships, Faces

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Ashes”, p.449, Simon and Schuster

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• We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women.

  Melina Marchetta

  Kissing, Men, Bed

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• Blue." It was Ronan's voice, for the first time, and everyone, even Helen, twisted their head towards him. His head was cocked in a way that Gansey recognized as dangerous. Something in his eyes was sharp as he stared at Blue. He asked, "Do you know Gansey?" ... Blue looked defensive under their stares. She said reluctantly. "Only his name." With his fingers loosely together, elbows on his knees, Ronan leaned forward across Adam to be closer to Blue. He could be unbelievably threatening. "And how is it," he asked," you came to know Gansey's name?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Blue, Names

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• At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.

  Veronica Roth

  Silence, Eric, Four

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.99, HarperCollins UK

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