“And this,' he was saying aloud. 'And this. And this.”
“I should’ve been a nun, he says, half aloud, as his feet leave the ledge.”
“By saying it aloud, he thought perhaps it might seem silly to him. That perhaps he'd been swept up in the moment with Genevieve and that maybe he wasn't quite to the point of love yet. But he was dead wrong. The words felt right on his lips. Saying them aloud only confirmed what his heart already knew. He was well and truly in love with the lass, and there was naught but contentment within him at the whole idea.”
“I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.”
“The thing he said aloud did not succeed.”
“I'm very damn wet!' he said aloud to the sundial.”