"When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye."
— Cathy Guisewite

"Your eyes show the strength of your soul."
— Paulo Coelho

"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again."
— Alex Tan

"“Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?” "
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
— Sophia Loren (Women & Beauty)

"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."
— Virginia Woolf (The Waves)

"She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.

from "The Lady of the Haunted House" "
— Angela Carter (The Bloody Chamber)

"And now, the bane of your existence, the killer of all joys, the Stage Manager-"
— Lisa Mantchev (Eyes Like Stars)

"And the worst part is, before it gets any better, we're heading for a cliff and in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom. The tragedy, it seems unending. I'm watching everyone I looked up to break and bending. We're taking short cuts and false solutions just to come out the hero."
— Paramore

"Maybe I know somewhere deep in my soul, that love never lasts. We've got to find other ways to make it alone or keep a straight face. And I've always lived like this, keeping a comfortable distance. And up until now I had sworn to myself that I was content with lonliness, 'cause none of it was ever worth the risk. You are the only exception."
— Paramore

"Listen to all of this glass shatter
It pierced my ears and made them bleed
Now all sounds so beautiful
'Cause your beautiful
Your beautiful"
— Eyes set to kill ~ Beauty between Broken Glass

"His tiny, naked butt disappeared into the stream as he cried, "Wheeeee! Balls out!"
"I think that's a rugby reference," Bertie said. "But don't quote me on that.""
— Lisa Mantchev

"Tracing patterns, across a personal map, and making pictures, where the lines overlap!"
— Paramore

"A line allows progess; a circle does not."
— Conor Oberst

"This is a theater," Bertie, annoyed by the inquisition, dropped him onto stage. Several feet of slack cable landed atop the fairy in a slithering heap.
"Oh!" Peaseblossom said. "You've buried him alive!"
— Lisa Mantchev (Eyes Like Stars)

"The Artist always has the masters in his eyes."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
-Orrec-"
— Ursula K. LeGuin (Gifts)

"Her eyes were olive green--incisive and clear."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
— Martin Buber

"There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done"
— Edith Nesbit

"And if the sun will set tonight, hold our secrets up to the sky, as our shadows grow there's nothing left to hide, and if you ever doubt you will know that i still wonder how many times did i compare the stars to your eyes."
— Amber Pacific

"Where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility?
It came to my ears in the goddamned loveliest melody!
How grateful I was then to be a part of the mystery:
To love and to be loved
Let’s just hope that is enough
"
— Bright Eyes

"I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?"
— Brian Celio

"The third proved problematic. Until the case reached its end, I was reduced to nothing but absent gaze. Think of it this way: I was a pair of abstract eyes walking around wearing my flesh as a disguise. Living as such there was no point in expecting any form of societal responsibility or human reaction."
— Kiyoshi Kasai

"Breathe in slowly now
Darling don't lie to me
Breathe in slowly now
Darling don't lie to me
Breath in Truth I bleed
For you my only
Hush don't lie Don't leave"
— Eyes set to Kill ~ Darling

"Hush don't speak a word
About the Dreams that I live for
It hurts to reach you when I'm down
Don't speak again
I'm still waiting for my turn
It hurts to reach you when I'm down"
— Eyes set to kill ~ reach

"As you are moving foreward
I feel as if I can't catch up
Trying so hard to reach you
Trying so hard to reach you
I'm stuck here at the bottom
Your too high up to come back down
Trying so hard to reach you
Trying so hard to reach you
So hold your breath and spare me
The pointless conversation
I'm running out of patience
Don't blame me for trying to reach"
— Eyes set to kill ~ Reach

"You're pushing me out
You're pushing me when
All I do is not enough
All I do is not enough for you
You've pushed me down
You've pushed me down
Well, I'll try and I'll try again
I'll try and I'll try again for you"
— Eyes set to kill ~ Where We Started

"Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes."
— Tarjei Vesaas (The Boat in the Evening)

"You have a beautiful, beautiful smile, the way it curls and collapses on your lips. When you touch me I shake like a child. It’s late, I'm afraid you might leave, 'Cause sometimes it seems like you still don't believe me. There's nothing I can do to concentrate, it's so distracting, always thinking of you."
— Bright Eyes

"The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself."
— Stanislaw Lem (Highcastle)

"Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer."
— A. Lee Martinez