#cricket

There's something about blue eyes. The kind of blue that startles you every time they're lifted in your direction. The kind of blue that makes you ache for them to look at you again. Not the blue green or blue gray, the blue that's just blue. Cricket has those eyes. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#french

He glances down and notices that I'm still wearing a certain blue something, and, this time, it's HIS index finger that wraps underneath MY rubber band. I shiver wonderfully. "I'm never taking it off." Cricket brushes the delicate skin of my wrist. "It'll fall off." "I'll ask you for another one." "I'll give you another one." He smiles and touches his nose to mine. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#lola #rubber-bands #french

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. ↗

— John E. Walker

#captain #cricket #i #keen #school

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#cricket #days #great #plenty #spare

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#days #educated #far #more #now

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#attend #best #cricket #day #exciting

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? ↗

— Thierry Henry

#days #follow #four #game #how

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down. ↗

— Ted Dexter

#cricket #down #else #endless #grinds

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#before #breath #broke #cricket #had

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup. ↗

— Jeremy London

#cup #got #i #into #late