Let me see what I can come up with, ' she said, and seemed to take a new satisfaction in it now. Something wrong to do, a law to break, and if she was lucky she might even get to steal, and it must have been then that everything changed between us and each of us didn't just have a neighbor to pass the time with but the closest thing either of us could find to a friend. ("Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls") .Brian Hodge
About This Quote
In "Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls", Maggie is a woman with a secret that she is trying to hide from the reader. She is a thief and does not want her readers to know that she is a thief. She wants her readers to think that she is a kind and good person who does not break the law. Her secret is also going to change things between her and her neighbor. She wants to protect her relationship with her neighbor but it is going to be difficult if she continues to keep secrets from him.
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