“My eyes have seen what I seek. For my mind's eye is wide open, and no longer do I just peek.”

“I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.”

“You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.”

“I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.”

“I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it’s dark and you can’t see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears?”

“Her eyes grew wide. "You've been undressing me with your eyes for all those months?"He offered a mischievous grin. "Oh, you have no idea what I've been doing with you in my mind.”