““The riders, too, were like nothing she had ever seen before: ethereal men and women with pale visages, their cheekbones so sharply sculpted that she could see their skulls through translucent skin. They surrounded her and looked at her with steely blue eyes, each gaze an arrow staking her to that spot, and she could not close her eyes though the sight of them made her eyes burn as if she were looking at the sun.””
![“[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing staggerings and serpentine courses among the men who had partaken too freely; some of the more careless women were also wandering in their gait. . . . Yet…” quote by Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9a9/thomas-hardy-410_alcohol_she-soon-perceived-that-as-she-walked-in_2214235.jpg)
![“They [her eyes] were big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood.” quote by Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d3/willa-cather-634_quote_they-her-eyes-were-big-and-warm-and-full_2968761.jpg)
