#gaze

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#enlightenment #eyes #gaze #meaning #meaning of

I guess it's hard, being apart all the time." "It really is. If Lucas were still here, everything would be different." Vic's smile turned smug. "Yeah, I'd have a roommate who could beat me at chess instead of the other way around." Ranulf never looked up from the chessboard. "I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory." "Keep dreaming," Vic called. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#claudia-gray #evernight-series #lucas #stargazer #vic

At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate and redirect instinctive responses. He brings out into the open the recognition underlying all decadent art; that is, the political function of the fascinated gaze. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#decadent #gaze #image #peladan #art

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#gazebo #life #change

I saw her standing across the room, and I thought, “Wow! Who is that sexy woman she’s standing next to?”
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— Jarod Kintz

#amazed #amazement #beautiful #beauty #gaze

In my day you got married and spent one holiday with one set of in-laws and another with the others. None of this bonding business. ↗

— Katherine Hall Page

#business

I'm not dating Balthazar. I'm pretend dating him. Which involves some not pretend hand-holding. And maybe some not pretend kissing. But it's all actually pretend, see? I groaned. My explanations were making my head hurt already. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#dating

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#life #misery #funny

He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#gaze #happy #hunger-games #kiss #love

You’re going to tell me that last night shouldn’t have happened.” No. I’m glad it happened. For too long, I’ve been telling myself that I could spend all this time with yo and flirt with you and not have it mean anything. It does mean something. You mean something to me. But I’m not in love with you. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#bianca #quote #stargazer #love