Averted Eyes Quotes

#1. (...) and its crush of suited people, men and women both, all with the averted eyes and vacant faces of lifelong servants. People who see only what they're paid to see.

Margaret Atwood

#2. When the world uncovers some dark disguise,
Embrace the darkness with averted eyes.

Thomas Ligotti

#3. No one could hear them over the carriage wheels, yet somehow it felt right to whisper. His eyes dropped to her gaping bodice. One nipple was reddened and still moist. He averted his eyes, swallowing. His erection, silly thing, didn't know the show was over.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#4. When you look at fainted stars, you'll notice that they often appear brighter from the corner of your eye. Averted vision, we call it.
Same with the answers you seek, you won't find them by staring until your eyes fall out.
They'll come when you're look somewhere else.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#5. Anya looked back to see a massive man standing by the fire. He had dark skin and black hair that fell to his waist. He had the deep amber eyes of a wolf and was naked. She averted her eyes. Maybe Yvan was right, maybe she really did have a problem with nakedness.

Amy Kuivalainen

#6. Toffs?" Jack kept his eyes averted from his

Connie Brockway

#7. Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

Cameron Diaz

#8. I notice that Andy is watching our exchange with the still, silent fascination of a fly on the wall that is canny enough to be aware of the existence of swatters.

Charles Stross

#9. I freeze when I come face to face with a naked man's chest. Why does this keep happening to me? Trying to keep my eyes averted from his very naked lower regions, I look up.

Dannielle Wicks

#10. I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thing
in heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"
The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet.

Todd Burpo

#11. Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

Aeschylus

#12. We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.

Carl Mydans

#13. And that was the whole point of being a covert operative. Welcome to the dark side.

Toni Anderson

#14. Her family half carried Terri Weedon back down the royal blue carpet, and the congregation averted its eyes.

J.K. Rowling

#15. In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

Ben Marcus

#16. At length for my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm floor of the prison. I struggled no more, but the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long, and final scream of despair. I felt that I tottered upon the brink
I averted my eyes

Edgar Allan Poe

#17. A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

Jean De La Bruyere

#18. Actually," I said, hesitant to bring it up, "I was thinking along the lines of a curse that can turn you human." "Or witch?" Ivy said, surprising me. There was a soft vulnerability in her and I blinked. "You don't want to be a witch," I said quickly. "Why not? You are.

Kim Harrison

#19. The city was new again, and newly dangerous, and I would walk the streets quickly, eyes averted from those of passersby, like a spy in the employ of lust and happiness, carrying the secret deep within me but always on the tip of my tongue.

Michael Chabon

#20. Although I'd had no trouble looking at the casket the day before, on that Saturday I did my best to keep my eyes averted. I stared instead at the stained-glass window behind the altar and imagined shooting the panes out with a slingshot.

William Kent Krueger

#21. In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

#22. I averted my eyes, looked around, and stumbled through all the faces in the room till they finally rested on his. He was standing like a scared bird, waving one wing and using the other to hide his scar. Aya Rabah- Scars

Refaat Alareer