“Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.”

“She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.”

“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.”

“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”

“One can like that the meaning of the word "art" is to try to make men aware of the greatness that they ignore in them.”

“Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate."

"I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!”

“It felt bizarre to be ignored in general, much less by an embodiment of Aidan--who used to stare at her so hard that he'd run into trees.”

“It doesn't pay to say there's no Devil and no demons and no such thing as evil, sin, or sickness, and just try to ignore the facts. It would be like trying to ignore that you have a disease when you've really got it, because as long as you have it and try to hide it, you can't very well find the remedy.”

“When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.”

“I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.”