Peering Quotes
49 quotes by 48 authors
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Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment,…
— Cormac McCarthy
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It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown…
— John Connolly
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Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the…
— Cornelia Funke
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She wanted to wake up like Dorothy and see Michael's face peering over the side of the bed, laughing. WHY, YOU JUST HIT YOUR HEAD.…
— Janet Fitch
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what's your name?" what?" i asked, squinting at the light. your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me. you know my name." I want…
— Richelle Mead
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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion…
— David Eddings
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Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering…
— Sophie Scholl
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We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He reaches over a goat that's come between us and grabs my hand. "Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while…
— Margaret Haddix
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You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living…
— Aimee Bender
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Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair…
— Robert Bloch
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I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.
— Karen Marie Moning
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It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than…
— Thomas Hardy
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Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild,…
— Charles Bukowski
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I love you, Rylann." He cupped her face, peering down into her eyes. "And now I finally have a good answer to the one question…
— Julie James
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We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,'…
— Gerald Durrell
Who Wrote These Peering Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 49 Peering Quotes, led by these top contributors: