I find it hard to describe what it is like to look fully into eyes that one has known that well--known better than one knows the look of one's own eyes, actually--and then put away, deliberately forgotten. That instantly reasserted intimacy, that resumption of what looks like friendly concern, is like nakedness, like exposure. Wallace Stegner
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  1. Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way - Pablo Neruda

  2. The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. - Meister Eckhart

  3. My eyes may not utter words, but they speak volumes when I look at you. - Anthony T. Hincks

  4. Eyes shows lies. - Toba Beta

  5. My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes. - Alice Hoffman

More Quotes By Wallace Stegner
  1. Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

  2. The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people...

  3. Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  4. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  5. Wisdom.. .is knowing what you have to accept.

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