In the Cut (2003)

Meg Ryan: Frannie Avery

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Quotes 

• Frannie : The still waters of the water under a frond of stars. The still waters of your mouth under a thicket of kisses.

• [first lines] 

  Pauline : What does "broccoli" mean"?

  Frannie : Depends on the context. Pubic hair or marijuana. It's a noun.

  Pauline : And "Virginia"?

  Frannie : Vagina. As in, "He penetrated her Virginia with a hammer".

• Frannie : I was at the Red Turtle with one of my students.

  Detective Ritchie Rodriguez : One of your students?

  Frannie : Cornelius Webb, but it was early, three-thirty. I was there for a short time, then I went home.

  Detective Malloy : Cornelius Webb. Is that with two B's or not two B's?

• Detective Malloy : He came from behind you?

  Frannie : I don't know.

  Detective Malloy : Did you turn?

  Frannie : He just - he grabbed my head and his arm, he - he had his arm around my neck.

  Detective Malloy : So he must've come up from behind you then. Was it his right arm?

  [places right arm on Frannie] 

  Detective Malloy : Or his left?

  [places left arm] 

  Frannie : It was his right.

• Cornelius Webb : [after class]  I've been thinking on Gacy, you know? Pogo the Clown? I've been thinking that it wasn't his fault, you know? Like he were the victim.

  Frannie : Of what?

  Cornelius Webb : Desire.

• Pauline : You live out of your unconscious.

  Frannie : You're a poet of love. The lovelorn man who Sick in soul and of this Busy human heart aweary Worships the spirit Of unconscious life In tree or wildflower Gentle lunatic

• Frannie : It's off in the distance It came into the room It's here in the circle

• Frannie Avery : Aren't you gonna help carry my bag?

  Cornelius Webb : No. You're an Amazon, Miss Avery. That's like an insult.

• Frannie Avery : Slang is either sexual or violent... When it's witty, I think it's really witty.

• Detective Malloy : What's all this?

  Frannie : Words, quotes that I like, poetry.

  Detective Malloy : Is it like a job or a hobby?

  Frannie : A passion.

• Detective Malloy : You want me to go, I'll go. You want me to stay, I'll stay. You got to want something. You're smarter than I am. I'm running just to keep up with you.

  Frannie : I'm scared of what I want.

  Detective Malloy : Why? Is it a lot?

  Frannie : Yeah, it's a lot.