#stares

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#animal #anymore #been #cross #dare

I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall. ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#disconnecting #emma #emotional #escape #feelings

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#free #horse #kicks #remembering #stares

All that we are not stares back at what we are. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#stares