"Stories of a city... that is disappearing before our eyes. Its people swept over. So,what will be left of those stories? Are we going to have to construct an imaginary city to house our memories? Because when you love something , every time a bit of it goes... you lose a piece of yourself."
"There's plenty of ways to die. But you have to figure out a way to live. Now, that's hard."
"New York... the safest big city in the world. But it is horrible to fear the place you once loved. And to see a street corner you knew so well and be afraid of its shadow. To see familiar steps, be unable to climb them. I never understood how people lived with fear. Women afraid to walk home alone, people afraid of white powder in their mailbox. Darkness and night. People afraid of people. I always believed that fear belonged to other people. Weaker people . It never touched me. And then it did. And when it touches you, you know... that it's been there all along... waiting beneath the surfaces of everything you loved. And your skin crawls... and your heart sickens... and you look at the person you once were walking down that street... and you wonder, will you...? Will you ever be her again?"
"Most everybody lies. But the dead can't. And then again, the lies tell you things too, because people tell them for a reason."
"How did you pull it back together after what happened to you?
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You don' t. You... you become someone else. A stranger."
"There is no going back to that other. She is gone. This thing, this stranger... it's all you are now."
"All this time, we 've been looking for a man with a gun. It was a woman with a grudge.
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Well, I guess there's a lot of us out there"
"When I was a rookie. I used to give myself this test. I would ask myself, if there was someone that I knew that had committed a crime... would I have the fortitude to put them away?
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What kind of someone?
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Someone close to me. Like the best friend I could ever... I could ever hope to have. I always hoped that I would have the courage and the dedication to say yes.
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And do you?
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I do. And it's important that you know that.
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I know that. It's what I admire about you."
"Now, if you're gonna use a gun, you make sure it's legal."
"There is no going back to that other person... that other place. This thing, this stranger... she is all you are now.”
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