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“I feel an uncanny ache. This is what looking at Charlie is like. Like a gut-punch of a sentence, like a line so sharp you have to set the book aside to catch your breath.”

Nora: “How do you do that?”
Charlie: “Do what?”
Nora: “Say the right thing.”
Charlie: “No one thinks that.”
Nora: “I do.”
Charlie: “Maybe I just say the right thing for you.”

Charlie: “I think we might be good together, Stephens.”
Nora: “Yes, together we add up to one emotionally competent human, a real accomplishment.”

*le sigh

Charlie writing on a napkin: I, Charlie Lastra, of sound mind, do swear I will keep Nora Stephen’s dark, dirty, twisted secret under penalty of law or five million dollars, whichever comes first.
Nora: “Okay, you’ve obviously never seen a contract.”
Charlie: “That’s a fine fucking contract.”

Perfect banter will keep the doctors away!