“It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.’ Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.”
“Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death.”
“Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.”
“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?”
“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”
“The idea of a licentious West that many Arabs hold today closely mirrors the view that Europeans had of the Middle East a couple of centuries or more ago.”