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  1. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    Is this all right?" he asked. He was using that very low, somewhat husky universal kissing voice. "Huh?" I said, because I am sexy.
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  2. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    After that, I felt like I had two lives. There was the me I had been before the attack, the one people knew and wanted to relate to. The one people wanted to comfort and fix. And there was another me, a hidden me that no one ever saw. There was a me who had tasted death. That me knew things others people didn't know.
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  3. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.
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  4. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    You'd been petting a stuffed dog?' she said 'A dead one?''It was a really well stuffed dog' I clarified. 'I have seen some bad taxidermy. This was top-notch work. It would have fooled anyone.
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  5. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    when something happens to me - good, bad, boring it doesn't matter - I have to someone to make it count. There's no point in anything happening if you can't talk about it.
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  6. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver.
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  7. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
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  8. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.
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  9. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    Spicy food and I have a close relationship-an obsessive one, in fact. If it's spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That's a known fact of science.
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  10. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.
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  11. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.
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  12. Maureen Johnson _ The Madness Underneath

    This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.
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