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“It was a very funny conference. I knew [Christopher Hitchens] before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He once stole a phrase from me that came out of his mouth on television. I saw his eyes move sideways. I thought, It's alright, you can have it! The conference was light on women. Salman Rushdie showed up, they were doing their own thing. I didn't feel neglected!”

Feels Light Eye Moving Saws Television Mouths Angel Phrases His Eyes Conferences Neglected Alright Sideways Rushdie

Author:Hilary Mantel

“I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.”

Trying Believe I Can Helping Eye Able Turns Difficult Behinds Brain Stage Self Esteem Pure Mouths Nervous Grandma My Grandma

Author:Adele

“If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.”

Ifs Mind Eye Film Morning Internet Capable Mouths Tiny Tissues Hardened

Author:Will Self

“I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.”

Eye Sound Voice Mouths Teeth Classic Handsome Crooked

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'”

Men Firsts Said Eye Mouths Castro

Author:Jesse Ventura

“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.”

Knows Love Eye Dies Grows Mouths Romantic And Love Wine Drank Food And Wine Drinking Wine Vino Old Wine Wine And Love Wine Toast Wine Love Drinking Toast Wine Making Witty Wine

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”

Source: At Swim-two-birds

“No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much.”

Knows Want Said Real Hands Eye Memories Poor Hair Arms Mouths Real Hair

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes and your mouth that has the smile of the water. A black yearning sun is braided into the strands of your black mane, when you stretch your arms. You play with the sun as with a little brook and it leaves two dark pools in your eyes.”

Littles Two Play Body Eye Form Joy Girl Black Water Dark Sun Arms Mouths Filled Fruit Your Body Pool Yearning Grain Brooks Luminous Curls Strands Seaweed

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.”

Firsts Eye Three Dark Feet Six Mouths First Time Empty Shoulders Touched Broads Inches Arrogant Dark Eyes

Book:Tender Triumph

Source: Tender Triumph

“He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.”

Men Eye Speak Voice Cry Lows Mouths Blue Musical Intense Knees Touched Spokes Steady Harry Potter Rude Accused Embarrassment Blue Eyes Phoenix Fawkes

Author:J. K. Rowling

“No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much.”

Source: The Tent

“Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.”

People Years Firsts Humans Real Eye Beautiful Desire Voice Human Beings Seeing Feet Particular Couple Mouths Originals Ghost Tone Spells Fountain Real Human

Author:Anais Nin

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”

People Ends Enough Stories Bigs Eye Running Together Missing Cry Kissing Mouths Ears Hug Impatience Missing Someone Reunited

Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.”

Men Hands Eye Four Mouths Filled Apes Dew Kites

Book:Songs from Books

Source: Songs from Books

“Those blue eyes glinted with uncivilized suggestion. A faint smile was tucked in the corner of his wide mouth. Definitely wouldn't want to be alone in a room with that guy, I thought. His gaze moved downward in lazy inspection, returned to my face, and he gave me one of those respectful nods that Texan men had raised to an art form.”

Men Want Art Eye Faces Form Guy Rooms Mouths Blue Moved Raised Corners Wide Lazy Suggestions Respectful That Guy Blue Eyes Inspection Texan Uncivilized Wants To Be Alone

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.”

Source: Diary: A Novel

“There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.' I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.”

Ifs Giving Looks Eye Girl Voice Like You Mouths Sorry Impression His Eyes Rough I'm Sorry Elegant Mischief Petite

Author:Peter Høeg

“Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.”

Years Firsts Children Eye Age Lying Born White Youth Hair Lovers Husband Mouths Years Ago Terror Old Age Staring Necks Sixty Pillow Delirium White Hair

Author:Philip Larkin

“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.”

Heart Body Would Be Eye Felt Brain Gone Alive Mouths Miracle Breaths Sat His Eyes Dry Nerves Throat Appreciated

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.”

Thinking Way Feels Looks Heart Play Eye Lying Knowing Taste Mouths Skins Ears Smell Tricks Noses Knowing The Truth

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my family hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops. Ghe grey-greensurface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in suprise to see, her long-cherished wish.”

Knows Looks Long Hands Eye Together Mother Three Speak Wish Watches Tears Color Arms Mouths My Family My Sister Flash Grey Snapshots Sharpening Polaroids Bright Colors

Author:Amy Tan

“Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.”

Needs Humans Hands Eye Speak Voice Born Mouths Deserve Genuine Denied Celebration Forgiven Human Voice

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.”

Want I Can Dream Eye Dies Dark Silence Darkness Forever Awareness Cry Goes On Mouths Breaths Silence Is Wanting To Die Dark Places I Want To Die

Book:The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5

“They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”

Ifs Way Feels Heart I Can Hands Eye Names Brain Break Fire Seeing Blood Feet Arms Goes On My Heart Beats Mouths Ears Hearing My Way Swear Seals Break Off

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared. Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth. Maia looked perplexed. "Wait a second," she said. "Do we all have to do that, too?”

“I was thinking the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm. I know it's pretty basic but I've found it really useful -" "Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?" "I've used it against him," said Harry quietly. "It saved my life last June." Smith opened his mouth stupidly. The rest of the room was very quiet. "But if you think it's beneath you, you can leave.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Firsts Said Helping Eye Lasts Used Found Rooms Arms Please Quiet Mouths Saved His Eyes Charm Rolling June Disarming Folding

Author:J. K. Rowling

“When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?”

“When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.”

Men Feels Eye Hate Imagination Lines Quality Saws Impossible Hair Grew Shapes Mouths Hatred Corners Pity

Book:The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.”

Men Body Eye Used Speak Mouths Loved Ones Through The Eyes

Book:Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel

Source: Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel

“We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be otherwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see thus, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!”

Source: Selected poems

“...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.”

Ifs Feels Heart Eye Laughing Mouths Her Eyes Limbs

Author:Gregory Maguire

“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.”

People Humans Doe Soul Reason Eye Night Choices Fall Speak Stars Blood Wind Normal Mouths Ears Seasons Storm Flesh Graves Weather Dust Sinner Autumn Abyss Snakes Veins Worms Tombs Tick Frenzy Toads

Author:Ray Bradbury

“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.”

People Looks Heart Said Eye Faces Talking Saws Needed Mouths Patterns Phones Planes Noses Airports Trembling People Talking Cupcakes Hide And Seek Dashing

Author:Lorrie Moore

“...Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch. It was Zsadist. His eyes closed, his head back, his mouth wide open, he sang. The scarred one, the souless one, had the voice of an angel.”

Enough Eye Heaven Voice Mouths Angel Wide His Eyes Black Dagger Brotherhood Zsadist

Book:Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“Elizabeth’s hands flew to her mouth; tears filled her eyes with happiness as she realized he was fulfilling yet another of her and her mother’s intended activities. “Why are you fulfilling all of my mother’s dreams?” she asked, studying his face and searching for answers. “So you don’t run away like she did in search of them,” he replied, taking her hand. “Come on, join in!” he said, leaping around.”

Said Dream Hands Eye Running Faces Mother Answers Study Tears Activity Mouths Filled Running Away Fulfilling Her Eyes Flew

Book:If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.”

Made Eye Faces Names Sound Blood Arms Mouths Window Ears Bones Shoulders Buried Laughed Salt Her Eyes Jace Simplest Luke Ardor

Author:Cassandra Clare

“The queen is head. Long live the queen...me." The platoon of renegade soldiers cheered. Redd kicked The Cat where he lay on the floor, tongue lolling in his mouth, the picture of death. "Get up! You still have seven more lives." The Cat's eyes fluttered open. Find Alyss and kill her." With a wave of her hand, the looking glass was once again whole. The Cate jumped through, in prosuit of the only living Heart besides Redd.”

Heart Long Stills Whole Hands Eye Mouths Cat Lays Seven Soldier Glasses Wave Tongue Get Up Queens Renegades

Author:Frank Beddor

“How do I look?" Amanda asked. Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her cheeks, or the soft sparkle of her eyes, or her lusciously swollen mouth, for anything other than the results of physical passion. "Like you've been ravished," he said flatly. She astonished him by smiling. "Hurry, please. I want to go inside my house and consult a looking glass. I've always wanted to know what a ravished woman looks like.”

Knows Want Looks Said Eye Wanted Passion House Results Mistake Like You Please Mouths Glasses Cheeks Her Eyes Sparkle Amanda Swollen

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.”

Whole Eye Faces Next Cry Kissing Mouths Ears Noses Her Eyes Eyebrows Foreheads Kissing Her

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth.”

Mind Real Light Eye Moving Felt Simple Behinds Darkness Mouths Skins Absence His Eyes Exploring Lungs Gliding

Book:Neverwhere

Source: Neverwhere

“I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile, because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it, so watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you with his mouth but the eyes stay the same. It's sure to be bogus.”

“Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?" His eyes flared yellow "Is that a challenge?" "Yes it is.”

Bigs Eye Challenges Behinds Boys Ready Mouths His Eyes Yellow Claws Cringe

Author:Ilona Andrews

“My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.”

Thinking Made Eye Brain Gone Imagine Honest Mouths Lips Crowds Being Honest Dry Locks Impressed Racks Cinna Sawdust

Book:The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship in town. The plastic "ladies" had stared our from every corner, their wide eyes and let-me-suck-you mouths taunting everyone who passed them. Things like that happened when Torin was bored.”

Ifs Eye Interest Happened Mouths Female Let Me Towns Response Blow Corners Wide Tricks Bored Paris Plastic Companionship Dolls Fortresses Taunting Wide Eyes

Book:The Darkest Night

Source: The Darkest Night

“I wish I could hate you," he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes sick with misery. "I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I do hate you and then I see you and I.”

Ifs Want Trying Said Sometimes Light Would Be Eye Hate Wish Voice Half Easier Mouths Sick Misery His Eyes Hate You Jace Unconcerned

Book:City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue. ...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever.”

Looks Eye Turns Fall Sound Cold Taste Mouths Ears Lips Warm Smell Emptiness Glue

Book:Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)

Source: Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)