“Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.”
“I cut a glance to him, and his eyes were still on me.It occurred to me why they call it eye contact.”
“The decision to move to the second post-college city (or suburb, or town), however, is usually made independent of friends. No matter if you do it for love, career, family, or school, the second move is on your own terms.”
“...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times?”
“the world wasn't made for us to think about it(to think is to have eyes that aren't well)but to look at it and be in agreement.”
“I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.”