#gaze

But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#escape #free #lucas #stargazer #love

The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- vampires, my parents, everything. He’d told me my parents lied. I yelled at him for it. He forgave me. He told me vampires were killers. I told him they weren’t, even after one stalked Raquel. He told me Charity was dangerous. I didn’t listen, and she killed Courtney. He told me vampires were treacherous, and did I get the message? Not until my illusions had been destroyed by my parents’ confession. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#lucas #stargazer #charity

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#gazebo #pessimism #pessimism

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#came #crowd #effects #few #first

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#band #bikini #called #documentation #fear

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#back #become #does #enough #fights

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#gaze #menacing #street

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#attempt #behind #directing #epistemological #eye

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#feet #gaze #his #regards #stars

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. ↗

— Brigham Young

#glass #glorious #god #his #nature