Quote by Claire Messud Download Open image ““Reza, in spite of the tears caught in his lashes like raindrops on a spider's web, did not cry.”” — Claire Messud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I had no eyelashes left. So when I cried, the tears rolled down, unabated to my mouth. My saliva tasted those days, like a… — Kunal Sen Copy Share Image
“He tastes my tears before I can feel them. Where there would be tears, his kiss. 'I didn't save you,' he whispers, lips tickling… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“The tears coursed down her cheeks- not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A tear rolled down my cheek And more came down Until tears rolled down like a stream. My eyes were blind with tears for… — Calvin O'John Copy Share Image
“That night as I cried myself to sleep I knew that, somewhere in the sky, Karim was doing the same; and some of my… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“All my trapped tears are in there like poison, but I can't let them out.” — Sarah Rubin Copy Share Image
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Life is about deciding what matters. It’s about the fantasy that determines the reality. Have you ever asked yourself whether you’d rather fly or… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want -- for God's sake, I want to wake up.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good teacher/daughter/friend” instead;… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled-… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It makes sense that if you stand almost daily in the middle of a perfect crescent of shore, with a vista open to eternity,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image