When she asked if the parking deck at the Detroit airport was air-conditioned.

The scene in Anna Karenina (this is the Maude translation) where Levin sees Kitty ice skating is one of my favorites, especially the last line of this passage.

“‘Can I really step down on to the ice, and go up to her?’ he thought. The spot where she stood seemed to him an unapproachable sanctuary, and there was a moment when he nearly went away, he was so filled with awe. He had to make an effort and reason with himself that all sorts of people were passing near her and he himself might have come just to skate. He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”

Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu. It was all over the place and I wish it had gotten a little more in-depth to their friendship and why it was the way it was. The ending was pretty sudden and felt really unearned.