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Eyebrows Quotes

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Jonathan Stroud
“The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.”
Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand

L.J. Shen
“She could tell me a thousand things with her eyebrows alone, this girl. Sometimes I wanted to shave them off just to spite her.”
L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

Terry Pratchett
“An hour ago Cutwell had thumbed through the index of The Monster Fun Grimoire and had cautiously assembled a number of common household ingredients and put a match to them.
Funny thing about eyebrows, he mused. You never really noticed them until they'd gone.”
Terry Pratchett, Mort

Wilkie Collins
“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness.”
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Nora Roberts
“So we ate some smoke, so what?”

“You lost most of your eyebrows.”

Stunned, she pressed her fingers above her eyes. “Shit! Why didn’t you tell me?”

“It’s a look.”
Nora Roberts, Chasing Fire

P.G. Wodehouse
“Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery.”
P.G. Wodehouse, Young Men in Spats

“Szpindel’s eyebrows drew together like courting caterpillars.”
Peter Watts, Blindsight

“I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They're remarkable. Nobody's ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.”
Shea Serrano, The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed

Nicola Yoon
“Carla raises a single questioning eyebrow at me. I lower two nonanswering eyebrows back at her.”
Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

Luca Evola
“Lost in the golden glimmer of her muddy moonradish eyes her kiss soothes my heart feeling myself melt into her love. Brushing my fingertips against her dark eyebrows and pressing my lips to her forehead I then see her perfect smile tasting again her marvelous lips.”
Luca Evola, Arabala

Christina Engela
“In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and he was very good at his job, which is why he always worked from home. He looked a little funny because he kept losing his eyebrows. Quantum Physics, is sort of like ordinary Physics, only you tend to spend a lot more time looking for the cat. He worked in the sitting room because he’d blown the garage up once already. Apparently a lot of things happened by accident in Quantum Physics.”
Christina Engela, Innocent Minds

Ljupka Cvetanova
“There were times when the mood of woman was a result of how she felt. Now days her mood depends on how her eyebrows are been drawn.”
Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

Mikhail Naimy
“لي بين حاجبي عين ثالثة، ولولاها لكنتُ أعمى”
Mikhail Naimy, كرم على درب

Richard Osman
“It has become such a habit now, she will sort of miss it when Carl and Toyota split up. Which they will, because Carl is an idiot and he's not going to keep a hold of a girlfriend with eyebrows that great.”
Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“Eyebrows are more than a treatment, they are an art”
Karmina Lacku

“I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion.”
Karen Brooks, The Good Wife of Bath

Robin S. Baker
“Being in tune with your body will indicate to you when stress is taking over. Pay attention to your posture and the way your head hangs when you walk. Is your jaw feeling tight? Are your eyebrows tense? Have you been dehydrated? It will send you a clear signal every single time.”
Robin S. Baker