Close your eyes Quote by Jill McCorkle

“Your child acts this way because she doesn’t know how else to handle her difficult thoughts and feelings.”

— Jeffrey Bernstein

“She stares at her knife and wishes she were smarter about things. Wishes she knew how to say something wise or consoling to him,…

— Diane Abu-Jaber

“She had the sudden feeling that if she could look into those eyes for the rest of her life, she would be happy. It…

— Patricia Briggs

“she began to understand that life is like a fire: comforting, warming, nurturing, and ready to burn the instant you let your attention drift.”

— K.R. Griffiths

“Somehow she always seems blurred, as though to focus on anything that exists beyond a canvas might prove too difficult for her tiny frame…

— Jessica Warman

“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might…

— Graham Greene

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Her eyes always bothered me when we were kids. They still do. They make mine ache trying to see where they end.”

— Cath Crowley

“When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was…

— Khaled Hosseini

“she had this look of calmness, of concentration, the look, I think, of all women who for the first time are with child and…

— Paul Scott