What they ask—quietly, with eyes too old for their…

“We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive. We do not apologize for them,” she says quietly, eyes never…

— Laura Sebastian

In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my…

— Peter Matthiessen

“You have found the person with whom you wish to share all the days of your life." His eyes lifted to mine and settled…

— Syrie James

“I think about all the ways I’ve been perceived by others over the years: as a burden, a dutiful daughter, a girlfriend, a spiteful…

— Christina Baker Kline

“How hidden the heart, Nance thought. How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it.”

— Hannah Kent

“A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room…

— John Berger

“For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and with such love. He…

— Tim Kreider

“Only a fool could set eyes on you and see an old maid.”

— Lori G. Armstrong

People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that…

— Ogden Nash

The stars have grooved our eyes with old persuasions Of love and hatred, birth,surcease of nations . . . Share Hart Crane

— Alfred Hitchcock

Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is.

— Lister Sinclair

“If your life doesn't flash in front of your eyes, old boy, does that mean you've had no life at all?”

— Colum McCann

“gazing upon him with eyes that were too old for her face.”

— John Connolly

And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he…

— Anne Holm

“You’re a big one,” said Nancy, staring into Shadow’s light-gray eyes with old eyes the color of mahogany, “a tall drink of water, but…

— Neil Gaiman