Staring Quotes - Page 33

• When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Revenge, Long, Details

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• Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

  John Green

  Boys, Monopoly

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• Uriah drops his tray next to me. It is loaded with beef stew and chocolate cake. I stare at the cake pile. “There was cake?” I say, looking at my own plate, which is more sensibly stocked than Uriah’s. “Yeah, someone just brought it out. Found a couple boxes of the mix in the back and baked it,” he says. “You can have a few bites of mine.” “A few bites? So you’re planning on eating that mountain of cake by yourself?” “Yes.” He looks confused. “Why?” “Never mind.

  Veronica Roth

  Couple, Confused, Cake

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• An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Heart, Sea

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• I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Wind, Darkness, Woods

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Dec 31, 2013

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• That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

  Jeannette Walls

  Running, People, Monsters

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

  Michael Grant

  Beautiful, Girl, Teenage

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• You might think being the target of an international terrorist organization, an amnesiac, and a girl with hair dyed in the middle of the night by Macey McHenry would make people stare at you. Well, try walking into the Grand Hall with seriously puffy eyes while holding hands. With a boy.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• Alec," Magnus said. He put a hand on his boyfriend’s shoulder; Alec was standing still, staring angrily at the floor. "Are you okay?" Alec looked at him. "Who are you again?" Magnus gave a little gasp; he looked — for the first time Simon could remember — actually unnerved. It lasted only a moment, but it was there. "Alexander," he said. "Too soon to joke about the happy memory thing, I take it," Alec said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Hands, Littles

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• she’s not pretty, that word is too small. She is not like the girls I used to stare at, all bend and curve and softness. She is small but strong, and her bright eyes demand attention. Looking at her is like waking up.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Strong, Eye

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.6, Harper Collins

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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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• Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

  John Boyne

  Coward, Tumbling, Irony

  John Boyne (2011). “The Absolutist”, p.285, Random House

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• I could stare at you for a lifetime. It would never grow old." "Even when I'm old?" "Even then.

  J. Lynn

  Lifetime, Grows

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• I saw Dad's eyes widen just a fraction when he heard my voice catch. He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn't want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I'll never forget it. In that brief glimpse, I could see what he was thinking behind that fixed stare. There would be no grandkids, there would be no more Creed family bloodline, nothing else to look forward to. From that point on I'd become the last, most devastating disappointment in what he thought his life had added up to--one overwhelming failure.

  Perry Moore

  Disappointment, Dad, Eye

  Perry Moore (2007). “Hero”, Disney-Hyperion

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• His dark hair is perfectly recklessly up today, those tanned muscles flexing as he extends out his arms and does his little turn. And here I am, my breath caught between my lungs and my lips as he turns around and scans the crowd. As soon as he spots me, his eyes come alive, as alive as I feel when he smiles at me. He holds my gaze while those dimples flash, and I swear he stares at me in a way that makes me feel that I am the only woman here.

  Katy Evans

  Eye, Dark, Hair

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• By the time those electric blue eyes seek me out in the stands, my heart throbs fiercely in my temples, and my insides bubble with emotion when he spots me. He stares straight into my eyes, and his eyes are only mine, and his smile is only mine, and for this fraction of an instant, nothing else matters but us.

  Katy Evans

  Eye, Heart, Blue

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