“Her eyes pass over me as lightly as they do over the furniture.”
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Actual Quote: Immediately afterward (as if we had been struggling and now my grip had eased) she rolled off the sofa and jumped to her feet— to her foot, rather— in order to attend to the formidably loud telephone that may have been ringing for ages as far as I was concerned. Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita (Vintage International) (p. 67).
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