Staring Quotes - Page 37

• As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.

  Sylvia Plath

  White, Bed, Ceilings

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.18, Hamilton Books

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• Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

  Rick Yancey

  Rude, Miles, Billions

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.32, Penguin

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• you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fall, Mirrors, Sides

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• I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.

  Rick Yancey

  Mind, World, Want

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• So,” I said at last, staring at my hands. “How’s, uh, your car?” “I left it out on the street. Figured it’ll be fine there while I’m gone.

  Richelle Mead

  Hands, Car, Gone

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.16, Penguin

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• Everything all right, Gwyneth?” asked Gideon, raising one eyebrow. “You look nervous. Would you like a cigarette to calm your nerves? What was your favorite brand, did you say? Marlboros?” I could only stare at him speechlessly. “Leave her alone,” said Xemerius. “Can’t you see she’s unhappy in love, bonehead? All because of you! What are you doing here, anyway?

  Kerstin Gier

  Eyebrows, Unhappy, Gideon

  Kerstin Gier (2012). “Sapphire Blue”, p.215, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.

  Rick Yancey

  Dream, Fall, Night

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. "More than I ever--" He broke off. "God. More than I probably should. You know that, don't you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Eye, Church

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• No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

  André Aciman

  Mistake, Self, Numbers

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• His mother got her purse. His father reached for the door. "Scooter," he said, by way of good-bye, "have fun with your friends." But Hale was shaking his head. He put his arm around Kat's shoulders. "She's not my friend, Dad. She's my girlfriend." Hale's parents must have walked away, but Kat wasn't looking. She was too busy staring up at Hale, trying to see into his eyes and know if he was okay. The sadness that had lingered for weeks was fading, and the boy that held her was the boy she knew. A boy who kissed her lightly.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Girlfriend, Fun

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• I'll find you, Will!" Then the wind filled the big, square sail of the wolfship and she heeled away from the shore, moving faster and faster towards the northeast. For a long time after she'd dropped below the horizon, the sodden figure sat there, his horse chest-deep in the rolling waves, staring after the ship. And his lips still moved, in a silent promis only he could hear.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Moving, Squares

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• The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

  Douglas Preston

  Heart, Meditation, Mind

  Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2010). “The Wheel of Darkness: An Agent Pendergast Novel”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.

  Stephen Fry

  Stars, Kind, Film

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

  Bob Weir

  Song, Writing, Pages

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

  Larry Bird

  Sick, Guy, Watches

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• I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust.

  Nicole Krauss

  World, Disgusting, Mutual

  Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Mirrors, Broken, Bleeding

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “Promise Me”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  Aaron Huey

  War, Should Have, Names

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• The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Lying, Sleep

  Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.244

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• I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

  John Oliver

  Memories, People, Kind

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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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• 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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• You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Laughter, Philosophical

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.572, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to look at it, and the ears wobbled in the air. "Of course they are," she said. Just when she thought Myrnin was getting his mental act together, he'd do something like that. Or maybe he was just messing with her. He liked to do that, and his dark eyes were fixed on her now, assessing just how weirded-out she was. Which, on the grade scale of zero to Myrnin, wasn't much.

  Rachel Caine

  Zero, Eye, Dark

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.15, Penguin

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• The first time I'd ever felt happy-and I mean ever-was when I'd been lying in my bed, staring out my window, watching the stars shine harmoniosly with one another.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Stars, Lying, Mean

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