Ordinary things Quote by Virgina Woolf

“Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary…

— Virginia Woolf

“This time he had no choice but to look into her eyes. He did not look away. It was the bright fierce gaze that…

— Michelle Frost

“Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies.”

— Lauren Willig

“She had that quality, selective blindness, when she just didn’t look straight at things she didn’t want to see.”

— Nora Carroll

“It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's.”

— Anna Godbersen

“She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange. It was…

— Henry James

“She knows he's not the same. He's different now. The eyes that once held too much contain nothing at all. He is colorless. Faded…

— Alfa H

“She finds this objectivity of hers, this clarity, almost more depressing than she can bear, not because there is anything hideous or repellant about…

— Margaret Atwood

“Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?”

— V.S. Carnes

“He was so different from her, yet in his presence she felt the possibility of another kind of life, a life she had never…

— Nicholas Sparks

“She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“and to know, by his ironical eyes, that he perfectly well understood the reason of her unusual meekness.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers