And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Jandy Nelson
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The quote above came from a short story written by Alice Munro called "The Bear Came Over the Mountain". In the story, Alice Munro describes how her husband looks when he is in bed. He has eyes that are green and brown, “like Cezanne painted them.” Munro says that when she looks at his eyes, she sees a scene that she has painted in her mind: The old man was in bed and the leaves were falling and the sky was gray and there was a chill in the air. The old man had two eyes: one dark and one light, and they were both green and brown, like Cezanne painted them.

Source: Ill Give You The Sun

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