Quote by Charles Dickens

“Their faces were zealously blank, their eyes filled with bland fire.”

— Stephen King

“She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the…

— William Golding

“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who…

— Daphne du Maurier

“She was seeking herself and finding herself in just such sweet, half-darkness which met her moods. But the voices were not soothing that came…

— Kate Chopin

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“But, while she strives to chill Desire, Her brighter Eyes such warmth inspire, She checks the Flame, but cannot quench the Fire.”

— Gerald Bullett

“Can you not set fire in my soul with those eyes”

— Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“It wasn't that they were unpleasant people; indeed, they were the sweetest things ever; they just enjoyed melancholy and seemed to take heart and…

— Howard Fast

“To have been granted so tiny a taste of the nectar of her mouth, and so brief a brush with the velvet of her…

— Laini Taylor

“And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of…

— Charlotte Bronte