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41 " Well. I don't know where to start. What to say. What to think. "
― Susanna Moore , In the Cut
42 " I don't believe in destiny, although I am sometimes tempted by the freedom implied by inevitability. "
43 " 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. "
44 " Maybe you got a date in the city. You're going to get laid. A stranger, someone new, 'cause you wouldn't take the trouble for someone you already fucked. "
45 " 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. "
46 " I do possess a certain rigidity, a certain prudishness. I hate it in myself. "
47 " But there he was last night, standing on the stoop, yelling up at my window to let him inside.I let him in. "
48 " The trees have a look of finding themselves in the wrong place, perhaps because they remember the river moving muddily behind the apple trees. "
49 " I used to think, what other job in the world is as good as being a detective? "
50 " Most things, I've come to believe, are not intended. "
51 " The garden is open to the public, although there are no signs to indicate this. It is a small place, hidden from view. "
52 " Why would you know?""I wouldn't," I said. "I don't know anything about you. "
53 " She gave me a slightly sinister smile. "
54 " 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. "
55 " 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. "
56 " 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. "
57 " 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. "
58 " How do you get me into these fucking conversations? You think too fucking much. "
59 " They stopped talking the moment they saw me, as if they were speaking some language I couldn't even begin to understand. And they probably were. "
60 " In a matter of seconds I, too, had come to despise her. "