Daily Inspiration Quote by Lizzie Andrew Borden

The chill in this line is how hard it works to sound like nothing. "I did not hear her go or come back" reads like a careful inventory of senses, the kind you’d give when you know people are listening for gaps. Then comes the softest landing possible: "but I supposed she went". Supposed. Not knew. Not saw. Just a shrug of a verb that turns absence into a reasonable guess, as if the world routinely does things offstage and you’re merely reporting the weather.

In the Lizzie Borden universe, that casualness is the point. A household becomes a crime scene, and domestic timekeeping (who moved, who didn’t, what noises were made) becomes the whole trial. The sentence tries to detach the speaker from responsibility in two ways at once: it claims sensory innocence (no hearing) and then offers a socially acceptable narrative filler (she must have gone). It’s an alibi shaped like etiquette.

The subtext is defensive, but it’s also performative. Borden’s notoriety turned her into an early kind of celebrity: famous less for what she did than for the public’s obsession with deciphering her. The line anticipates that gaze. It keeps everything just out of reach - no definite timeline, no confirmable observation - while sounding cooperative. You can feel the strategy: provide language that satisfies the demand for an account without handing over anything that can be pinned down. It’s minimalism as self-protection, and it’s why the sentence still crackles with suspicion.