But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the river. Or a passerby in the mist in 
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
bigness, despair, desperation, exasperation, eyes, indifference, nationality, peace, personal, public, smallness, war