Amusing Quote by Edith Pargeter

“He focused on the world before him; the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes.”

— Leigh Hershkovich

“Mortimer Delvile was tall and finely formed, his features, though not handsome, were full of expression, and a noble openness of manners and address…

— Frances Burney

“It never failed to astonish him, then or ever, how much of the world around him was mysterious and hidden from view.”

— Lev Grossman

“A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that…

— Anne Stuart

“His eyes bore into mine. He watches every nuance, every detail of every expression, as if his existence depends on it. He fucks with…

— Karen Marie Moning

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.”

— Herman Melville

“He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He had the soul of a fortress and eyes that had peered at the world from battlements too long.”

— Pat Conroy

“In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.”

— Alessandro Baricco

“His expression transforms, looking mean in a good way, promising me greed and aggression, things I'd never ask for but long to see.”

— Cara McKenna

“...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window --…

— Neal Stephenson

“He pocketed his watch with a milder look, and began to turn about busily in the empty shell of his own mind. His universe…

— Edith Wharton