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" The amount of time people who have just met are supposed to look directly at each other, particularly without talking, is a unit that’s both very short and very precise. When you exceed it you get suspicious, or you get threatened, or you get this flicker of accidental intimacy. "

Linda Holmes , Evvie Drake Starts Over


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Linda  Holmes quote : The amount of time people who have just met are supposed to look directly at each other, particularly without talking, is a unit that’s both very short and very precise. When you exceed it you get suspicious, or you get threatened, or you get this flicker of accidental intimacy.