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“My brothers faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies. I think of their wives, imagine their questions. Our parents, forever seei...”
“Every day I thank God for giving me a little kind heart which bears this life”
“By their actions, they will show you who they are.”
“I think people make their own faces, as they grow.”
“Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.No matter how hard you try, result never changes.”
“I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? Too much, too fast.”
“The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.”
“It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.”
“Hands are difficult. You would think they would be just five quick lines, but no, they have personalities as intimate as faces. Elizabeth's hands, for instancethey are fine hands, with long fingers...”
“You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.”
“I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me.”
“The yellow eyes had fallen from the tired star. Lorq's face erupted about the scar at some antic from the Mouse that Katin had missed. Rage, Katin pondered. Rage. Yes, he is laughing. But how is an...”
“I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and...”
“As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. Her eyes turned the color of the sea.”
“Faces are the ledgers of our experience.”
“In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.”
“My brothers’ faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies. I think of their wives, imagine their questions. Our parents, forever see...”
