Sometime during high school he’d gotten .. . kind of .. . beautiful, and Harper found it easier to not look directly at him. When she did, it did strange things to her, making her voice high and her cheeks burn. So she only ever really looked at him out of the corner of her eyes, like one would look at a solar eclipse. Summer Hines
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Harper is describing how she felt about this classmate who had become very attractive in high school. She never directly acknowledged this classmate, but she also never avoided looking at him out of the corner of her eyes. Harper gives us an example of the power of habit. Habit is a repetitive series of actions that are done without much conscious thought or planning.

When you think about it, it's strange that people do things over and over again without ever thinking that they are doing anything in particular. If you were to ask your neighbor what he did today, he would probably say something like, "I got up at 6:00 o'clock, worked on my car, went to the store for groceries, came home and fixed dinner." He would go on in this way for hours before he would realize that all these actions were in fact part of his habit in life—the same habit he had been doing every single day for years. Habits are automatic.

Source: Some Things Stay With You: A Windswept Wyoming Romance

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