“Nikki paid attention to nags because they were the voices God gave to clues.”

“Because the song was that great and because we all really paid attention to it. Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.”

“We must eliminate nagging with its complaining and contentious spirit because it focuses attention on self rather than on the other person.”

“Writers show us the glades we'd missed, the trickling voices of streams, the eyes of a barn owl watching us. A writer like my father revealed a shape and movement amid it all, layers, meaning, perspective, joy, because he paid such careful attention, and paying attention is about the biggest redemption there is.”

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

“Gideon knew exactly what I liked. Not because I’d told him, but because he paid attention to everything about me.”