Book Quote by John Crowley

Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding…

— Toni Morrison

“When he finally opened his eyes he saw her sit up and smile at him. She was beautiful, her dark hair was tousled, and…

— Elizabeth Reyes

And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was determined to save her, to be her hero, to give her a reason why the gods had seen fit to place him…

— Madison Thorne Grey

“She had eyes that bore deep into his heart, bringing a sweet warm wave of assurance within; eyes that cradled him in the crisp…

— Stephen Mosley

He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very…

— Anna Godbersen

“God the way he was looking at her, with no pity or disgust. Intense, with only the slightest softening around his eyes to save…

— Kit Rocha

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He loved not only her beauty, but that dim soul which he divined behind her suffering eyes. He would intoxicate her with his passion.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.

— Charles Bukowski

“Her eyes were so big and bright, as if they saw more than they could comprehend. Bright with terror, and beneath the terror a…

— Henry Miller

“Light flashed in her eyes. In fact, it clung to her—flaring around her skin, her hair, her whole body. It was a trick of…

— J. Rose Black