Stares Quotes

“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, Reason to Breathe

“Her blank eyes burrowed through the fetid air between herself and her visitor. They were without content; hollow pools of meaninglessness. They were not eyes, but voids sunk between two jutting pent-houses of bone and two bloodless hummocks of cheek. They suspended two raw rods of grief before their own immobility, like frozen fountains in a bright wintry air; and on these rods the fluttering rags of a futile grief were hung.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

“Everyone watched Maddy. Not outright – the glances came at her like light dancing off a mirror ball, moments of eyes flicking across her face and gone. It was almost as if the class were on a collective joyride at her expense: the more miserable she felt, the more excited their smirks became.”
― Beth Goobie, The Pain Eater

“Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem.”
― Travis Jeremiah Dahnke, Write like no one is reading

“The roads kept journeying,
the houses kept staring.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“The stares that had haunted and followed the terrifying killer everywhere he turned had been nothing but a boy's imitation of a mother's reproachful look.
No, Herman would never guess what had driven him out of town. We hadn't accused him of a man's murder.
We'd accused him of a seagull's.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“He found the man standing by the stable, his posture elegant as he locked eyes with Duchess the cat. They regarded each other with matching unblinking and unimpressed stares. Even their eyes seemed to match, with the warm sunlight bringing a hint of yellow to Ejoler’s gaze. “You won’t win,” Philip called. “That cat has the patience of a stone. She can out-stare anyone.” “I believe I have a chance. Even stone wears down given enough time.”
― Hanna Dare, The Dragon Hunter's Son

“And he said...

...coldness comes from icy stares discovered in truth.”
― Anthony T. Hincks