“It doesn't matter if she's deaf," he says, My aunty Demi can listen with her eyes, and whisper with her hands.”
“Anna Quangel wishes she could stroke her husband's hand, but she doesn't dare. She just brushes it, as if by accident, and says, 'Oh, sorry, Otto!' He looks at her in surprise, but doesn't say anything. They walk on.”
“Deaf and blind to all but her pants and her hazy bluebell eyes as she rocked into bliss, he clenched her hips as if she held his life in her hands.Like she already held his heart.”
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes”
“How you can come to love an animal! She doesn't talk, but she speaks with her eyes, her paws, her meows, and I understand her.”
“He whispers in her ear, and she basks in his attention, trumpeting happily at the sight of him. Doesn't she remember?”