Eyelids Quotes

114 Eyelids quotes by 97 unique authors

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our… — Jodi Picoult
I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of… — Audrey Niffenegger
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my… — Suzanne Collins
I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong… — William Goldman
instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy… — David Levithan
She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the… — Walter Pater
But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see… — Juliet Marillier
There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and… — Vladimir Nabokov
Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and… — William Shakespeare
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep… — William Shakespeare
The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids. — Yukio Mishima
In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for… — J M Coetzee
History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. — Jodi Picoult
And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad. — Catherynne M. Valente
Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word… — Lisa Kleypas
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that… — Khalil Gibran
Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the… — Natalie Goldberg
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace.… — Ellen Hopkins
I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into… — Charlaine Harris
The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing.… — Ilona Andrews
I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there — Terence McKenna
Staring at him the way she might stare at a beloved place she was not sure she would ever see again, trying to commit the… — Cassandra Clare
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious… — Adrienne Rich

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