Anna Godbersen Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.

  Anna Godbersen

  Eye, Everyday Objects, Tree

• He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Real, Heart

• You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes." Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you." "No.

  Anna Godbersen

  Eye, Ceilings, Irony

• That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Dream, Eye

  Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.3, Harper Collins

• She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to touch her cheeks and then her eyes opened fully in his direction. Her small round mouth flexed in an immediate and knowing smile. That's the girl I'm going to marry Henry thought.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Eye, Heart

• Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.

  Anna Godbersen

  Beach, Sweet, Eye

• Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Stars, Eye

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