Glances Quotes - Page 12

• Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.

  Anne Carson

  Love You, Self, Issues

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Girlfriend, Medicine, Space

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• Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her. "No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-" "Do i make you nervous?" "No. I'm not nervous." "You're trembling." "I'm cold. I'm wearing practically zero clothes." His glance went to her lips, then back to her eyes. "I noticed.

  Michele Jaffe

  Zero, Eye, Clothes

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• Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team.

  Emily Giffin

  Couple, Real, Team

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Blue: A Novel”, p.97, St. Martin's Press

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• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, People, Missing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

  Donna VanLiere

  Crazy, Littles, Sometimes

  Donna VanLiere (2012). “The Good Dream”, p.125, Macmillan

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• When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.

  Patrick Süskind

  Done, Proud, Firsts

  Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.236, Penguin UK

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• I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sweet a room. And the happy young housewife does not know That the woman beside her was his first choice, Till the fates ordained it could not be so.... Betraying nothing in look or voice The guest sits smiling and sips her tea, And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sweet, Husband, Fate

  Thomas Hardy (1998). “Hardy: Selected Poems”, p.96, Penguin

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• Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Anna, Said

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• Lord Maccon looked up. “Grovel, you say?” Lyall did not glance away from the latest vampire report he was perusing. “Grovel, my lord.

  Gail Carriger

  Vampire, Lord, Reports

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• Fine! I'll throw on some clothes. Turn around. I'm in my pj's" "I'm a guy. That's like asking a kid not to glance at the candy counter.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Kids, Pjs, Clothes

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.

  Darynda Jones

  Reading, Fire, Romance

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

  Don DeLillo

  Running, Strong, Fall

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Body Artist”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• Johanna glances over at Finnick, to be sure, then turns to me. “How’d you lose Mags?” “In the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldn’t lift her. Finnick said he couldn’t take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison,” I say. “She was Finnick’s mentor, you know,” Johanna says accusingly. “No, I didn’t,” I say. “She was half his family,” she says a few moments later, but there’s less venom behind it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fog, Mentor, Poison

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.897, Scholastic Inc.

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• Now don't go wandering off, William," she said with a meaningful glance. "I don't want to lose you in the crowd." Will's jaw set. "I'm getting the oddest feeling that you're enjoying this," he said under his breath. "Nothing odd about it." Feeling unbelievably bold, Tessa chucked him under the chin with the tip of her lace fan. "Simply behave yourself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Meaningful, Feelings, Fans

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Thinking, Self, Looks

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1196, Macmillan

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• Steadying herself with both hands on the table, she managed an awkward bow.... 'Your Highness,' she stammered, head lowered... The prince flinched and cast a glance over his shoulder before hunching toward her. 'Maybe, um...' - he pulled his fingers across his lips - 'on the Highness stuff?

  Marissa Meyer

  Hands, Awkward, Tables

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• But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Wise, Character, Men

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• A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Funny, Reading

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

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• It was likely that no one had been surprised, however, as it was clear that Aline and Mckenna belonged together. There was something invisible and yet irrefutable that made them a couple. Perhaps it was the way both of them stole quick glances at each other when one though the other wasn't looking... glances of wonder and hunger.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Couple, Together, Way

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• It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Passion, Voice, Shining

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Past, People

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Memories, Blood, Waiting

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