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• Weirdly, an image of Adrian’s Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness, ripping it apart. Staring at Jill and her inconsolable pain, I suddenly understood his art a little bit better.

  Richelle Mead

  Art, Pain, Littles

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.249, Penguin

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• I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Minutes, Term, Five

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

  Mark Twain

  Long, Frogs, Ifs

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• As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash. Corny had not stopped laughing.

  Holly Black

  Kings, Fall, Eye

  Holly Black (2008). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

  Paullina Simons

  Ice Cream, Soldier, Saws

  Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• He seemed to realize she was staring at him, because the cursing stopped. "You cut me," he said. His voice was pleasant. British. Very ordinary. He looked at his hand with critcal interest. "It might be fatal." Tessa looked at him with wide eyes. "Are you the Magister?" He tilted his hand to the side. Blood ran down it, spattering the floor. "Dear me, massive blood loss. Death could be imminent.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Cutting, Loss

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• It must be because you're so approachable", I say flatly. "You know, like a bed of nails." He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice. Heat rushes into my cheeks. What will happen when this tension breaks? But he just says, "Careful, Tris.

  Veronica Roth

  Dog, Eye, Choices

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

  John Prine

  Oatmeal, Down And, Bowls

  Song: Illegal Smile

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• This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

  David Levithan

  Memorial, Standing Still, Stills

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• Now I’m just standing here on the conveyor. Along for the ride. I reach the end, turn around, and go back the other way. The world has been distilled. Being dead is easy. After a few hours of this, I notice a female on the opposite conveyor. She doesn’t lurch or groan like most of us. Her head just lolls from side to side. I like that about her. That she doesn’t lurch or groan. I catch her eye and stare at her.

  Isaac Marion

  Eye, Opposites, Female

  Isaac Marion (2011). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Becoming, Life Is, Screens

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• Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.

  Josh Turner

  Eye, Sky, Heaven

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• You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Dragons, Heartless

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?" "But are you?" "Course I's happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you." I frown at Miss Celia and I make sure she can see it. Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy ENOUGH.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Husband, White, People

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.49, Penguin

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• ...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

  James Crumley

  Morning, Children, Rose

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

  Garry Shandling

  Mother, Father, Men

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• There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

  Johnny Vegas

  Jobs, Couple, Phones

  "Johnny Vegas: Boozy comic sheds six stone as he tries to clean up his act" by Beth Neil, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2009.

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• If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Thinking, Mirrors, Fans

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• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Zoos, Animal, Royal

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

  Russell Howard

  Moving, Mean, Wife

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• How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.

  Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

  Men, Past, Air

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• He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.

  Sophie Jordan

  Infatuation, Feels, Agree

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• Hey, Volusian, you haven't been checking me out, have you?" He gave me his trademark bland stare. "I assure you, mistress, the only allure your bare flesh has for me is to remind me how easy it will be to slice open." I laughed. If not for the fact he was actually serious, he'd be so much fun.

  Richelle Mead

  Fun, Mistress, Hey

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.200, Zebra Books

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• Artemis turned and stared at his friend with the blue eyes. Holly was staring back, and she was smiling. “I remember,” she said aloud. “You saved me.” Artemis smiled back. “It never happened,” he said.

  Eoin Colfer

  Eye, Blue, Hollies

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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