#566 Subject to Search- Lorrie Moore
Tom has always been an exciting man to her. He probably used to run drugs the length of Europe but now he is much more respectable. He is in the International intrigue business as some sort of consultant for British Intelligence. The undercover secretive thing makes her like him more:
“The closed-the-open-again secrets of his work enchanted and paralyzed her, like the frog who fatally acclimates to the heating water.”
They have a long running relationship, both at one time married, then not. His status in the government makes him important and yet somehow unattainable. She hopes for the best: “We’re all suckers for happy endings.”
Notable Passage: “If you’re suicidal…and you don’t actually kill yourself, you become known as wry.”
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