Quote by James Fenimore Cooper

“Eyes as dark as her heart and as empty as her soul”

— Shayna Rodriguez

“One day, riding along, we were talking about Joan's great talents, and he said, 'But, greatest of all her gifts, she has the seeing…

— Mark Twain

“An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.”

— Zane Grey

“She is staring at me wide-eyed, willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the…

— Lauren Oliver

“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

“In her more lucid moments, she knew that half her life had been sacrificed to safeguard her secret heart, to appease that unreasonable, mortal…

— Raymond Kennedy

“it wasn't uncommon... that such a girl might die young, but this girl had stayed alive long enough to make her mark, to take…

— Lawrence Schiller

“We never see the people who are dear to us save in the animated system, the perpetual motion of our incessant love for them,…

— Marcel Proust

“After slipping on a negligee and making herself comfortable on the lounge, she became conscious that she was miserable and that the tears were…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“5. Be ofttimes mindful of the saying,(3) The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn away…

— Thomas à Kempis

“I looked at her, at first with the sort of gaze that is not merely the messenger of the eyes, but a window at…

— Marcel Proust

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”

— Charlotte Brontë