Irises Quotes - Page 3

• People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses.

  Liu Wen

  Beautiful, Eye, People

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• I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

  Judi Dench

  Responsibility, Long, Heavy

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

  Junot Diaz

  Home, Light, Feels

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a knee on the bench she'd been sitting on and reached over the back to close her hand on Asil's wrist, which was lying across the back of the pew. He hissed in shock but didn't pull away. As she held him the scent of wilderness, of sickness, faded. He stared at her, the whites of his eyes showing brightly while his irises narrowed to small bands around his black pupil. "Omega," he whispered, his breath coming harshly.

  Patricia Briggs

  Lying, Eye, Hands

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• Tod's eyes widened, and his irises swirled in tight twists of blue. "Well, I don't see that I have much of a choice, considering that's part of Reaper Law." "There's a Reaper Law?" "Of course. 'A reaper is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous...'" He shrugged. "It gets boring after that. But this situation is clearly covered under the 'helpful' category." I rolled my eyes. "I think that's the Boy Scout law." "They took it from us. But they left out all the good stuff.

  Rachel Vincent

  Eye, Thinking, Boys

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.

  Yves Klein

  Mean, Reality, Blue

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962". Book by Yves Klein, p. 47, 1974.

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• [Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.

  Rick Riordan

  Hands, Rainbow, Don't Lose Hope

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