Iain Banks Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

  Iain Banks

  Eye, Secret, Catechism

  Iain Banks (2013). “The Wasp Factory: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

• "Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza.
  "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival."

  Iain Banks

  Wall, Eye, Survival

  "Consider Phlebas" by Iain Banks, Orbit Books paperback edition, (p. 102), 1987.

• But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you. If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one.

  Iain Banks

  Stupid, Eye, Animal

• Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear

  Iain Banks

  Eye, Dark, Night

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