Their Eyes Were Watching God Book Review Novels & Stories

Underneath all of it, underneath the performance and the compliance and the endurance and the cold deliberate hands and the diamond collar and the letters read by eyes that were not mine, underneath all of it, I was still there. Waiting. Learning the shape of the lock from the inside. I simply faded, colors bleeding from a masterpiece left too long in merciless light. ----- Georgia is not breaking. She is studying. There is a difference, and it matters enormously. -- J

And take, again and again. A certain annoyance swirled within those innocence of her eyes. And I simply watched, almost amused as the flames erupted behind that dark pearls. A shadow of awe tinged around her eyes but it was soon dominated by that annoyance. How eyes so dark were able to read so easily as an open book amazed me...

There was something about her eyes that seemed different…almost inhuman. I concentrated on her eyes, trying to figure out what was wrong with it now, even as I stood frozen in my spot. With a start I realized that it wasn’t the blazing desert sun that was playing tricks with her eyes, they seemed to be glowing from within, like a diamond does when light strikes the right angles.

Hearing your thoughts and seeing what you can see… What's the difference? I did not reply. I merely showed her what the difference was. In front of Snowie's stunned gaze, I thrust my finger into my right eye and forcibly plucked my eyeball out. Of course, there would not be blood or gore. After all, my right eye was a prosthetic.

After my eyes were plucked out, I lay on the operating table with two empty sockets on my face, resembling that of a broken doll. Samuel Sterling felt no guilt. He picked up my eyes to examine them and praised them, saying, "Daeleen was right. These really are a beautiful pair of eyes! I promised you, Daeleen. I will make all your wishes come true." As the anesthesia's effect slowly wore off, I could not help but cry out in pain. Samuel finally turned his attention to me as if blaming me for interrupting his memories of Daeleen.

“Just watch them.” Them? Isn't it supposed ‘her’? After observing Evelyn, their jaw dropped to the ground again, making their jaws hurt from always dropping on the floor. What the hell did they just see?! END OF CHAPTER 46

His best friend was calling his wife ‘Whore ‘, he was tearing her respect but wasn’t he the one who don’t fucking care about her self-respect so he just was listening them. But he still couldn’t leave the look at her eyes, it was so different so vulnerable so empty now, he can’t manage to look at her those eyes as if the words her mouth can’t convey that her eyes tell. Her eyes were like open book but it felt like he was an illiterate.

I knew the minute everything changed for her because I saw it in her eyes. It was impossible not to have noticed the change in her demeanor because she had shown up to the ritual with a defeated look. I could sense the exhaustion in her pheromones and I was sure she had given up the idea of trying to change my mind. Yet as I peered into her Amber eyes, that sullen look was gone, replaced with a look of determination. She didn’t need to open her mouth to say the word. I saw it all in her eyes the moment she decided that she wouldn’t be leaving, not unless I removed her myself. She didn’t need to tell me those exact words but the determination in her eyes had been one that said, ’You’re going

‘Why are you so goddamn stubborn, how I’m I going to protect such a stubborn woman’, he said. ‘Beck please leave and don’t ever speak to me again please’, I watched him leave the house slamming the door hard behind him. I didn’t move till he had driven off in his car. I locked the door, the windows and retired to my bedroom. I wore a hoodie the next day, I have never felt so blind in my life. I know I could see into people’s futures and I have never wanted to see mine but since after last night I wished I could. I locked my doors as I drove and I parked in the main lot where there were a lot of people, often I felt a lot of eyes on me but when I turned there was no one there and I knew I was