It was extraordinarily distracting: this feeling of a pivotal moment in his own life being played out in front of an uninvited audience. - Border Crossing

A rasp and flare as [Danny] struck the match. A doubled reflection of the flame appeared in his eyes, whose pupils had not contracted, as one would have expected, but grown large, as if starved for light.

Danny was a bottomless pit. He wanted other people to fill him, only in the process the other people ended up drained.

...he'd seen the boy's [Danny's] body hang suspended... an umbilical cord of silver bubbles linking his slack mouth to the air.