Solar eclipse Quote by Marian Keyes

“With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he thinking? She was fifty at least:…

— Virginia Woolf

“And then there were her eyes. Two grey gimlets. They had a gaze that could strip wallpaper. They made you think that she could…

— Tony Rattigan

“She was done up like a Christmas tree--over-ripe mouth, beads of mascara thick on her eyelashes, green eyeshadow, a hat with a trailing drape…

— David Dodge

“The chalk dust was everywhere. On her pants. All over her shirt. She looked like she’d fallen into a vat of 1980s eye shadow.…

— Chelsea Cain

“They [her eyes] were big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood.”

— Willa Cather

I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of…

— Sylvia Plath

“Her earliest memory was of wings. Luminous red and blue, yellow and green and orange; a black so rich it appeared liquid, edible. They…

— Elizabeth Hand

“Looking at these people now from behind the counter, made her feel like that little girl again, the deprived child that used to press…

— Effrosyni Moschoudi

“I smoothed my grandmother’s starched white damask cloth over the battered pine harvest table in the dining room, and with my fingertips, traced the…

— Mary Kay Andrews

“She was a large, boneless woman who draped herself like an old blanket over the chairs of the apartment, staring for hours with her…

— Michael Chabon

“You stare at anything long enough and suddenly it looks monstrous.” She had in fact turned away from him to stare at the bowl…

— Anne Rice

“Insulated from natural contacts with earth, air and sunlight, by corsets pressing on the solar plexus, by voluminous petticoats, cotton stockings and kid boots,…

— Joan Lindsay