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“By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.”
Scott B. Smith, A Simple Plan
tags: noir
“I didn't feel evil. I felt nervous, scared, nothing more.”
Scott B. Smith, A Simple Plan
tags: noir
“I never liked Lou”
Scott Smith, A Simple Plan
“with his dog and his friend Lou in his truck.”
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“Lou lying on his back”
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“what you called a man with no arms and no legs in a swimming pool. “Bob,”
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“You’re not my buddy,” Lou said.”
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“the petty spitefulness”
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“Everybody’s going to get what they deserve,” she said.”
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“I’m thirty-three,”
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“But how could I have known then all the loss to which her simple plan would ultimately lead?”
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“I promise I won’t tell Lou,” he said.”
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“Don’t be stupid”
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“What the fuck’re you doing?”
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“Perfectly,” Lou said”
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“Her crying got louder and louder. The sound of it gave me a headache”
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“The money, by giving us the chance to dream, had also allowed us to begin despising our present lives.”
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“My confession lay between us, stillborn, draining blood onto the papers scattered across my desk.”
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“Her face had a strange look to it. It wasn’t horror, which was what I’d dreaded most; it was something closer to fear—apprehension tinged with perplexity—and beneath it all, just the slightest hint of disapproval, sitting there like a seed, waiting to learn more before it sprouted and grew.”
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“I was doomed now, trapped, that the rest of my life would pivot somehow off this single act, that in trying to save Jacob, I’d damned us both.”
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“By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.”
Scott Smith, A Simple Plan
“Recalls The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the better work of Jim Thompson (The Grifters; After Dark, My Sweet) and Thomas Berger’s tales of small-town souls who succumb to murderous mayhem.”
Scott B. Smith, A Simple Plan