Quotes About Observation

I see her car first.

Jeremiah watched, bemused, but I could tell he was alert, ready to jump in if he needed to.

Peter doesn't like mayonnaise. It's funny the things you pick up in a fake relationship.

Why don't dads know anything? Does he not have eyes and ears?

I keep my eyes trained straight ahead, but I can see him in my periphery.

I can just tell that you're the kind of girl who does.

He looks at you a lot, Lara Jean. When you're not paying attention. He looks at you, to see if you're having a good time.

Of course you'll look at other girls. You have eyes, don't you? I swear, that's just as silly as when people say they don't see color. Everyone sees everyone. You can't help but see.

Anybody with one eye and half a brain could tell what a tool that guy is.

Have you ever noticed that only boys ever take stairs two at a time?

Out of the corner of my eye, I see the boys watching us. Elaine and I pretend not to notice, and I know that she's just as aware of the boys as I am. We're doing pretty well until the boys start to snicker, and even then we keep our cool. But then I hear the boys guffawing, and that is pretty hard to ignore.

of the corner of my eye, I see the boys watching us. Elaine and I pretend not to notice, and I know that she's just as aware of the boys as I am. We're doing pretty well until the boys start to snicker, and even then we keep our cool. But then I hear the boys guffawing, and that is pretty hard to ignore.

I'm watching her super carefully

He...he looks at you a lot, Lara Jean. When you're not paying attention. He looks at you, to see if you're having a good time.

No, I was looking at you.

IT CAN BE STARTLING TO SEE SOMEONE¹S BREATH, LET ALONE THE BREATHING OF A CROWD. YOU USUALLY DON¹T BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE EXTEND THAT FAR.

Sometimes she just stands and looks out the window where the people whose lives are intact enough not to have to take yoga live.

I slipped it into your papers to see if you would notice." The Zen master Ikkyu was once asked to write a distillation of the highest wisdom. He wrote only one word: Attention.

The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon.

A few days later the baby sees the garden hose come on and we hear her laughing. All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said. Later, when it's time to go to bed, she puts both legs in one side of her footy pajamas and slyly waits for us to notice.

The wife sits in the backyard with binoculars. She is trying to learn about the birds. She has seen robins and sparrows and wrens. A green-throated hummingbird. She wants to know the name of the black bird with the red wings. She looks it up. It is a red-winged blackbird.

In some Zen monasteries, gossip is defined as talking about anything not directly in one's gaze.

What the Yoga People say: None of this is banal, if only you would attend to it.

It is important to be on the alert for "the decisive moment," says the man next to me who is talking to his date. I agree. The only difference is that he is talking about twentieth-century photography and I am talking about twenty-first-century everything.