“Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.”
“I looked at her from the corner of my eye. Some people are hard to imagine as children.”
“There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talkin' loudly goin' on about "oh the baby's lovely." They said it's got, er, lovely big eyes, er, really big hands and feet. Now that doesn't sound like a nice baby to me. I felt like sayin' it sounds like a frog. But I thought I don't know her, there's only so much you can say to a stranger. I don't know what kept me from sayin' it.”
“whatever eyes can speak mouth nevers”
“People eyed one another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.”
“One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.”