“She said things and I nodded. I didn't pay attention. She didn't pay attention to me. We floated through our days in that way.”
“Absolutely,' she said. 'The more you pay attention to the body, the less attention you've got left to pay the soul. I really do understand that.”
“It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.”
“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”
“I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.”
“Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.”