“it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.”
“Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.”
“I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.”
“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”
“The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.”
“...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.”