Zoning Out Quotes

“Frederick blinks several times. As he often does when addressed in class, waiting for his internal life to catch up with his external one.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Susannah looked over at Eddie and felt a passing ripple of irritation. He seemed to have lost interest in the whole thing--had "zoned out," in his weird 1980s slang. She thought to throw an elbow into his side, wake him up a little, then remembered Roland shaking his head at her and didn't. You wouldn't know he was thinking, not from that slack expression on his face, but maybe he was. If so, you better hurry it up a little, precious, she thought.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass