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• I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

  Ishmael Beah

  War, Night, Thinking

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Class, People, Trying

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Dream, Book, Dark

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• There are some closed doors we’re so frightened of opening that we don’t see them any more. We’ve pushed furniture in front of them; we’ve jammed the lock. Children are the only ones who might crouch down on all fours to stare at the red glow coming from under the door, as they wonder what lies behind it. But Vango had always been afraid of the glow.

  Timothee de Fombelle

  Children, Lying, Doors

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• Anytime you walk onto a stage or something where there's lots of people staring at you, you need to have something inspiring inside your head. Bolstering.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  People, Needs, Stage

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!

  Stuart Stevens

  Running, Brother, Dark

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• Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.69

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• As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.

  Brian Molko

  Beautiful, Morning, Party

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• If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Use, Way, Succeed

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Ideas, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.

  Jim Carrey

  Mirrors, Rooms, Faces

  "New Again: Jim Carrey". Interview with Betsy Borns, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I always get a headache the first time I watch a movie I'm in. Because you're staring at the screen so hard, your brain is doing all this work trying to put things in context of what the day-to-day experience of making it was. And the timeline that's in your head of when it was made, and on what day, how you felt. And then you're also trying to grasp what it's been edited into.

  John C. Reilly

  Brain, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A blind man. I can stare at him
  ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
  No, he is in a great solitude.
  O, strange joy,
  to gaze my fill at a stranger's face.
  No, my thirst is greater than before.

  Denise Levertov

  Men, Joy, Solitude

  Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams (1967). “Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams”

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• The moon has nothing to be sad about,
  Staring from her hood of bone.
  She is used to this sort of thing.
  Her blacks crackle and drag.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Darkness, Bones

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.224, Faber & Faber

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• And I have seen long fingers that would stare
  With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl
  Deftly across the counterpane and fall
  Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Fall, Eye

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.193, Macmillan

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• Jem leaned closer against the chair, staring into the fire. “Better it were my hands,” he said. Will shook his head. Exhaustion was muting the edges of everything in the room, blurring the flocked wallpaper into a single mass of dark color. “No. Not your hands. You need your hands for the violin. What do I need mine for?

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Fire, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Lucas: I wanted to talk to you after class, but you disappeared. Me: I have another class right after. One of those profs who stops talking, stares at you and waits until you get to your seat if you're late. Lucas: I would probably just walk to my seat even slower. ;)

  Tammara Webber

  Talking, Class, Waiting

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• I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Magic, Ingredients, Steps

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• Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask?

  Alyson Noel

  Needs, Shy, Roaming

  Alyson Noel (2012). “Fated”, p.230, Pan Macmillan

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• You gonna keep staring at me, Great Acheron, or are you ready to chew me a new one?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Ready

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.169, Macmillan

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• Something I've never seen in all my lives. I'm staring at... hope." - Wanda

  Stephenie Meyer

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• Liadan," he said, staring intently at the ground. "Yes," I whispered. "Don't wed that man Eamonn. Tell him, if he takes you, he's a dead." --Bran

  Juliet Marillier

  Men, Said, Ifs

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• The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, “We gotta fake pray,” and bowed his head.

  John Green

  Sight, Fake, Praying

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.175, Penguin UK

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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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