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121 " I realized that he'd been trying to work up the interest to flirt with me. "
― Susanna Moore , In the Cut
122 " 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. "
123 " I remembered that it was masculine gestures that aroused me. "
124 " I don't want a boyfriend," I said. "I don't even want any more friends.""What about a fuck?""That would be fine. "
125 " It was that time when I am finally able to sleep the sweetest, the deepest. "
126 " 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. "
127 " A dangerous combination for me. Language and passion. "
128 " . . . sentimentality being an emotion that for me usually attends later in the night. "
129 " 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. "
130 " 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. "
131 " People think I'm much more than I am. "
132 " She smiled with a kind of abashed formality, embarrassed by revelation. "
133 " Give me my Scallop shell of quiet. "
134 " 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. "
135 " She knows the poem. "
136 " 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. "
137 " . . . sighing as if he regretted leaving, although I thought not, that sudden oncoming of emptiness and sadness washing over me then, too. "
138 " I have not flirted with him. And besides, even if I had, which I hadn't, flirting is not risky. It only raises the possibility of risk. "
139 " I wondered if I was afraid of him, after all. "
140 " And although I wanted to think about him, it would have to wait until the next day, perhaps until I was on the subway, where I seem to have most of my more interesting thoughts. "