Susanna Moore > Quotes

“I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“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.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.”
― Susanna Moore, The Big Girls

“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.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“The trees in the park swayed and shuddered in anticipation, with delight or dread I do not know.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“I know the sort of man who likes me. So I wondered, not for the first time, what secret I might possess, what magic charm or talisman had allowed me to get Malloy's attention in the first place. To get him to fuck me. I am not the kind of woman he likes.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“My belated recognition of his desire actually served the purpose of provoking me to consider him, if only for a moment. It was like high school when just to hear that a boy liked you was sufficient encouragement to agree to go steady with him by the end of the day. Now that I think of it, it is just like life. Not high school.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“I don't want a boyfriend," I said. "I don't even want any more friends."

"What about a fuck?"

"That would be fine.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“We're detectives . . . We can do anything we want.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“She knows the poem.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“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.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“How do you get me into these fucking conversations? You think too fucking much.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“I was thinking about that, my heart suddenly full of despair.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“Afraid, now that I knew what I wanted. What I did not want. I did not want him to hurt me.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“Although I do not like anyone intervening on my behalf, especially a man, I would have been very happy if Malloy had told Rodriguez to go fuck himself.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“I wanted to talk to him. To hear his dangerous voice, the voice that he used with women ('Hi, baby, how you doin'? Sittin' on the phone?' The 'hi' drawn out in a low, implicating whisper.) I wanted to hear the coldness that was so deep . . . That coldness of spirit that had made it so thrilling to get his attention.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“He wished to remain elusive even to himself. He was full of contradiction—penitential confessional eagerness and a secrecy that kept him opaque and in motion.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“Something I have never mastered. Something I've never even tried to master.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“He was looking at me in a way that he never had before. Impatient. A little bored. As if I were not so smart after all.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“She don't want you around all fucking day. Many women that I know take you home, you make love, it's all over, you get up, you can see the relief on their faces: Not only does he fuck me well, he leaves.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“Nowhere is there a sense of peace.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“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.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“It was that time when I am finally able to sleep the sweetest, the deepest.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“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.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“I said nothing, fearful that he would stop.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“I wondered if I was afraid of him, after all.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“It has been my experience that when two people talk about sex, sex in the abstract, if there is such a thing, it is a way of fucking before you get into bed, trying it out, seeing if it's going to work.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“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.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“He was convincing. Lying as cultural attribute. A hazard of the job. And I fell for it. It did not occur to me that he lies simply because he likes it. Lies to bosses. Lies on the stand. He boasts about it. Lies under oath. It's called testilying, he'd told me. Lies to women, especially to women. Starting with his mother and working his way through all of us. His wife. The doll collection. He couldn't be bothered to tell the truth.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“Why would you know?"

"I wouldn't," I said. "I don't know anything about you.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut