Staring Quotes - Page 6

• Everything's weird if you stare at it.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Ifs

  "The Dungeon Master" by Sam Lipsyte, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today for countless minutes. It is closer than I’ll ever get to you for real. I felt like I was looking at a captured animal at a safe distance. If you knew I was doing this, you would feel sickened and frightened. That’s why you’ll never know. Years will go by and you’ll never know. I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Hate, Real

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• I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.

  Charlaine Harris

  Struggle, Men, Hands

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.864, Penguin

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• (Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.)

  Susan Cain

  Shoes, Likes, Finland

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• 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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• Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?

  Isaac Marion

  Echoes, People, Waiting

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• "Keep looking at me,” she said, laughing as though we were having an amusing conversation. “He’s staring at you. And I mean staring. That boy is undressing you with his eyes. Can you feel it?” Her expression was triumphant.
  Could I feel his stare? I can now, thanks, I thought.

  Tammara Webber

  Mean, Eye, Boys

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, 2012.

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• We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.

  Emma Donoghue

  Grandma, Names, Tree

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• I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Glasses, Break, Teapots

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• Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

  Lord Dunsany

  Dream, House, Different

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “A Dreamer's Tales”, p.75, Booklassic

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• Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

  Brent Weeks

  Dark, Simple, Evil

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• Tyson was still staring at Chiron in amazement. He whimpered like he wanted to pat Chiron's flank but was afraid to come closer. "Pony?

  Rick Riordan

  Ponies, Tyson, Wanted

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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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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• You should go." "I can't." "Because you want to stare at the monster?" Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a wholly human fire now. "Or because you pity me?" I couldn't guess which possibility he loathes more. I fold my arms. "I can't leave because the door's locked. Believe me, I would've gone hours ago if I could have." "Oh. Of course." Then he looks so abashed--so boyish, and so handsome--that I almost want to laugh.

  Claudia Gray

  Believe, Eye, Doors

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• We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Opportunity, Faces, Beast

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.315, Ballantine Books

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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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• I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Ocean, Swim, Shore

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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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• Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her?" "Yeah. That was awesome." A pause, followed by "Ow," suggested elbow punctuation on the part of Mik. Karou ignored it. "Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Cities, Voice

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.534, Hachette UK

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• I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.

  Veronica Roth

  Differences, Decision, Acting

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.71, Harper Collins

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• Let’s talk.” I pinned Red to his chair with my stare. I did deranged quite well, when the occasion required.

  Ilona Andrews

  Red, Chairs, Wells

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.72, Penguin

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• Tabitha checked her watch. It was almost ten. “I don’t know about you, but I’m famished. Want to go grab a bite?” Valerius gave her an amused stare. “You have to be the only woman alive who would ask a man with fangs that question.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Watches, Alive

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize the Night”, p.108, Macmillan

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• For God's sake, Stiff," he says. "You don't have to follow me," I say staring at the maze of bars above me. I shove my foot onto the place where two bars cross and push myself up, grabbing another bar in the process. I sway for a second, my heart beating so hard I can't feel anything else. Every thought I have condenses into that heartbeat, moving at the same rhythm. "Yes, I do," he says.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Heart, Two

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.71, Harper Collins

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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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• I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

  Charles Dickens

  Want, Faces, Misery

  Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.321, Oxford University Press

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