Why is he romantically interested in her?

Sarah is stacking six doughnuts on top of each other. main character is a doughnut lover. Sarah then turns around and winks at the main character. this means there is love coming around the corner.

Her need to smell everything. Flowers, food, clothing, knives and forks.

@hungerforpizza It may be as simple as the way she has that quirky little smile or upturned nose. Don’t forget the thought: a man and his stomach and love from a good woman go hand-in-hand

I would go with something a bit unusual and interesting that can be integrated into the story to make it engage with the audience more. For example she eats her oranges with a spoon like a grapefruit, make it tie into the character’s story so Sarah’s character is less flat and more round.

Sarah reaches in her purse or backpack. She takes out a magic marker. She writes (with her left hand) something on the palm of her right hand. She deliberately caps and puts away the marker. She looks at the character with a grin that is both friendly and provocative. She raises the palm of her hand. Written there, is “touch this”.

Is having huge knockers quirky?

He watches her try to play the harmonica ;)

She makes sound effects for objects that already have them.

She can’t eat gummy bears, swedish fish, or anything cute because she feels bad for them.

He looks over and sees her eating her ice cream cone. It works for me!

She could do that “Shy Di” thing that Princess Diana used to do where she tilted her head and then looked upward with “puppy dog eyes”. Apparently, that worked on billions of people, if not Charles.

She gardens and he loves the way she sings to and nurtures her plants when she waters them in her translucent sundress….

@john65pennington

So is there any correlation to the cop mentioning the donuts? Just sayin . . .

When she gets excited, she starts speaking in a language other than English..

So far she sounds pretty one-dimensional. How about Sarah working out a theorem in the sand?

She randomly drops pennies from her pocket as she walks down the street. That’s what caused him to first notice her—she accidentally dropped a quarter as she passed the main character, as he was waiting for the bus. He bent to pick it up, but noticed as she passed that she deliberately dropped a penny about 15 feet away. And then another. Fascinated, he followed her, discretely, to see where the trail of change might lead.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir All characters start off as one-dimensional. That’s what character development is all about. But it is an interesting thought, particularly if the male character just happens to be a molecular biologist (or similar!) and needs a theorem (not necessarily the one Sarah is working on) for his thesis.

An interesting suggestion you made.

She has a crooked smile he likes, the camera can close in on the crinkling or dimpling that goes on around her mouth, maybe the sound will be muted but for his breathing and a close up of his own mouth smiling.