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“It was as if he were daring me to look at him . . . and tell him what I saw.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“What are you doing?" I whispered. Even though I knew. It was as if I had to pretend that I did not know what he was about to do to me.”

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“Things have been happening so quickly that I haven't been able to think them through. Which always makes me a little nervous. Not that anything like this has ever happened to me before.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“The trees have a look of finding themselves in the wrong place, perhaps because they remember the river moving muddily behind the apple trees.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“The garden is open to the public, although there are no signs to indicate this. It is a small place, hidden from view.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“I cannot keep to the point. Perhaps I am afraid. It is not easy for me to admit that. My courage is one of the few things about myself that I do not doubt. It is one of the things in which I believe . . . But I would be crazy not to be afraid now.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“The killer might do it again and then we could start to put things together. Leave our minds open, let what we know work its way round our brain. Some smart detective might pick up something.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“He doesn't seem to have a private life, only a secret life which appears to overlap and even be a part of his work life.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“You know, he said when I opened the door to get out of the car, I can remember almost every murder I ever worked on. I dream about them. It's all in my head. And sometimes something just clicks. Sometimes you got it. It's like with a broad. Sometimes you just know. Know what? I asked. If it's a fit, he said.”

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“The egg was too spinsterly-looking a snack, too lonely-seeming, and I did not want to be lectured about my diet. Or my loneliness.”

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“Well. I don't know where to start. What to say. What to think.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“I don't believe in destiny, although I am sometimes tempted by the freedom implied by inevitability.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“I do possess a certain rigidity, a certain prudishness. I hate it in myself.”

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“But there he was last night, standing on the stoop, yelling up at my window to let him inside. I let him in.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“He once ran down the hall to show me a passage in the correspondence of Jane Austen in which she admits that good apple pie was a considerable part of her domestic happiness.”

Jane Austen In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“In a matter of seconds I, too, had come to despise her.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“I did not bother to explain myself. It would have taken months. Years.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“I have been telling a lot of lies lately.”

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“I smiled. Wanting to shove him into the hall with its red-flocked Victorian wallpaper, not able to comfort him, not wanting to comfort him.”

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“I never paid much attention to cops before, and if I did, I saw them as adversaries. Not unlike the way Detective Malloy sees women.”

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“Pauline, who claims completely disingenuously to fuck only married men because she prefers to be alone on the holidays . . .”

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“It upsets her that I do not have a boyfriend. She claims to understand why she does not have one, but she thinks it is preposterous that I don't. Both my clothes and my solitary life being instances of my unwillingness to seek romance.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“I don't want a boyfriend," I said. "I don't even want any more friends." "What about a fuck?" "That would be fine.”

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“Unlike myself, she has the accident of style rather than the intention.”

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“Her sexual swagger is only the convention of a woman who suspects that there is little hope for happiness with a man, and who hedges her bet by pretending that she is grateful to be alone.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“You know," she said dreamily, "I can remember every man I ever fucked by the way he liked to do it. Not the way I liked to do it.”

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“Hey, babe," I said. "Love hurts.”

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“I was corrupted in other ways. I was led to believe that intelligence made a difference.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“I wondered if, in some way that I did not understand, he was using that knowledge to presume an intimacy between us, as if we shared a secret that was exciting because it was dangerous to both of us.”

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“I heard the sound of footsteps behind me, beneath the distant swish-sound of the trucks. I looked over my shoulder. There was no one there. Which frightened me. Because I could hear him.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“This happens all the time," he said. "You know what I'm saying?" "What happens? "Murder." I was silent. "That's the thing about it. It never stops. Never.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“I was suddenly afraid that if I seemed too upset or afraid, too crazy, he would stop.”

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“He was silent. I waited, not knowing if he was asleep, men having the ability to fall asleep even when the conversation is about themselves.”

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“The one thing she didn't teach me because I was always in a rush was to stick around. I was always getting laid on the run.”

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“How do you get me into these fucking conversations? You think too fucking much.”

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“I'm sorry," I said. "You didn't do nothing," he said in surprise. "I can be sorry even if it's not my fault." He looked at me as if this were a new idea for him.”

In The Cut Susanna Moore

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“He was anxious to go, reluctant to go. Ready to go.”

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“Something I have never mastered. Something I've never even tried to master.”

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“He resisted for a moment, laughing, nudging aside my head with his hip, and then with a heavy sigh, as if I were leading him to his doom, he leaned back on the bed, elbows bent, and watched me.”

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“I reminded myself that Pauline says they have to despise us in order to come near us, in order to overcome their terrible fear of us. She has some very romantic ideas.”

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“It was that time when I am finally able to sleep the sweetest, the deepest.”

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“How do you know I'm a writer?" I asked. "I can tell," he said. "You're making shit up in your head all the time.”

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“A dangerous combination for me. Language and passion.”

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“. . . sentimentality being an emotion that for me usually attends later in the night.”

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“She refers to her inability to find true love as if it were a congenital weakness or fair punishment for some feminist principle that she mistakenly espoused in late adolescence and cannot now abandon honorably.”

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“People think I'm much more than I am.”

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“She smiled with a kind of abashed formality, embarrassed by revelation.”

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“Most things, I've come to believe, are not intended.”

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“She gave me a slightly sinister smile.”

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“I stared at her, trying to decide if her smile could be called ghastly (I thought it could), or if she really was amused by her story.”

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