Staring Quotes - Page 23

• She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.

  Maureen Johnson

  Wall, Numbers, Giving

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.132, Penguin

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• No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.

  Maureen Johnson

  Home, People, News

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.156, Penguin

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• It's us," Stephen said. "Oh, thank God," said a voice. Callum emerged from behind the Dumpster. Even with all that was going on, it was hard not to take notice of this: he wore only his underpants and his socks and shoes. ...I don't think I hid my staring very well either. "Go ahead and change," Stephen said, handing me the bag. "I'll go and get the car." "Please be quick," Callum added. "This is not as fun as it appears.

  Maureen Johnson

  Fun, Thinking, Shoes

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• Nick subjected him to a long, judgmental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Long, Lasts, Judgmental

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

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• (about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

  Robin Sloan

  Book, Night, Use

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Killed?" said Hagrid loudly, staring down at Harry. "Snape killed? What're yeh on abou', Harry?" "Dumbledore," said Harry. "Snape killed... Dumbledore.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hagrid, Said, Snape

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• See?" she says. "tricked you. You're always staring at your opponents eyes-but that gives you a bad peripheral view.If you want to track my arms and legs, you have to focus on my chest." I raise my eyebrow at that. "say no more.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, Views, Track

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• She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.

  Rachel Caine

  Expression, Faces, Common

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.63, Penguin

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• Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.

  Richard Kadrey

  Girl, Cities, Sound

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim, Book 2)”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• You are staring at me like you were going to eat me up.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Like You

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• Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long.

  Lucy Christopher

  Eye, Long, Intense

  Lucy Christopher (2013). “The Killing Woods”, p.224, Chicken House

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• At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

  Craig Thompson

  Stars, Lying, Fall

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• I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

  D. J. MacHale

  Home, House, World

  D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside.

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.topiama.com. October 9, 2014.

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• He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does not come across as something peaceful within himself. It's the look of a kind of human volcano, or he'd probably like to describe it as a human nuclear energy plant.

  Dan Rather

  Eye, Volcanoes, Leader

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• Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Persons

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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• He had a thousand-year-old stare.

  Louise Erdrich

  Years, Thousand, Thousand Years

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• Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat.

  Kathy Reichs

  Ice, Blue, Kitchen

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• Hunt seemed similarly indifferent to the show, his head inclined toward hers, his gaze locked on her face. Though his breathing remained soft and disciplined, it seemed to her that its rhythm had changed ever so slightly. Annabelle moistened her dry lips. “You …you mustn’t stare at me like that.” Soft as the murmur was, he caught it. “With you here, nothing else is worth looking at.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Breathing, Dry, Faces

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• Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, "That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible."

  David Spade

  Success, People, Guy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.

  Brandon Mull

  Reality, Giving, Choices

  Brandon Mull (2014). “Chasing the Prophecy”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far off to hear his voice, no words because I was too distant for speech, and no thoughts - those I saved for later. He bent his head. I loved the hairs on the nape of his neck. He moved his lips. I admired their changing shape. He clasped his hand. I blessed his fingers. Once, the power of my gaze drew his eyes.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Blessed, Eye, Voice

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• No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as London, it's cities and towers and churches and bridges and streets, circled all about them like the memory of a dream. And if the Thames that ran beside them, sure and silver in the afternoon light, recalled a night long ago when the moon shone as brightly as a shilling on this same boy and girl, or if the stones of Blackfriars knew the tread of their feet and thought to themselves: At last, the wheel comes to a full circle, they kept their silence.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Dream, Memories

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• He was the first to reach the aircraft, and he went for the door that by some miracle was facing outward and not into the concrete wall. Wrenching the thing open, and getting out his flashlight, he didn’t know what to expect inside—smoke? Fumes? Blood and body parts? Zsadist was sitting rigid in a backward-facing seat, his big body strapped in, both hands locked on the armrests. The Brother was staring straight ahead and not blinking. “Have we stopped moving?” he said hoarsely

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Wall, Moving

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• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  Laini Taylor

  Writing, Giving, Finding Yourself

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