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Desi has loved me ever since the lie, I know he pictures making love to me, how gentle and reassuring he would be as he plunged into me, stroking my hair. I know he pictures me crying softly as I give myself to him. -- Gillian Flynn
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I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again. -- Gillian Flynn
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I started on the opening page of my own book.
'I am a cheating, weak-spined, women-fearing coward, and i am the hero of your story. Because the woman I cheated on - my wife, Amy Elliott Dunne - is a sociopath and a murderer.'
Yes. I'd read that. -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop. -- Gillian Flynn
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they all offer me recipes for "cheap and easy eats" that usually involve a casserole made from canned soup, butter, and a snack chip. -- Gillian Flynn
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People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know their husbands. -- Gillian Flynn
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Best friends are the people who know us best. -- Gillian Flynn
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I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear. -- Gillian Flynn
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Because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau. Each exposure needed to be more intense than the last to achieve the same result. -- Gillian Flynn
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Worse, I convinced myself our tragedy was entirely her making. I spent years working myself into the very thing I swore she was: a righteous ball of hate. -- Gillian Flynn
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All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine. -- Gillian Flynn
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Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love. The pointless tasks, the myriad sacrifices, the endless small surrenders. We call these men the dancing monkeys. -- Gillian Flynn
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I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I'm too self-conscious otherwise. -- Gillian Flynn
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Inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship. So -- Gillian Flynn
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If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose. -- Gillian Flynn
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I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it. I don't need pathetic dancing monkey
scenarios to repeat to my friends, I am content with letting him be himself.
I don't know why women find that so hard. -- Gillian Flynn
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It sounded artificial, like a beauty pageant contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me. -- Gillian Flynn
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I wasn't entirely sure about Meredith's assessment. Some people would love to have the killer be a guy born and raised in Wind Gap. Someone they went fishing with once, someone they were in Cub Scouts with. Makes a better story. -- Gillian Flynn
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Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fingers, vibrators and more, between the legs, from behind, in the mouth. -- Gillian Flynn
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I rent a small brick bungalow within a loop of other small brick bungalows, all of which squat on a massive bluff overlooking the former stockyards of Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas. There's a difference. -- Gillian Flynn
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It is a January party, definitely, everyone still glutted and sugar-pissed from the holidays, lazy and irritated simultaneously. -- Gillian Flynn
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And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice, a day and quickly subsides. I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him. -- Gillian Flynn
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I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever. The -- Gillian Flynn
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And I didn't realize. I didn't take into account. Just. You know, this is real to you. I mean, I know that, we know that, but we don't at the same time. We really just never will. I don't think. Totally get that. You spend so much time discussing and debating it becomes ... But. Well. I'm sorry. -- Gillian Flynn
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On a September morning, just after school started, I'd gotten Diane's .44 Magnum and held it, babylike, in my lap for hours. What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart. -- Gillian Flynn
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I know a little bit about trying to do the right thing and fucking up completely." I added.
"You talking about mom?" Ben said
"I was talking about me."
"You could have been talking about all of us.
Ben pressed his hand against the glass and my brother and I matched palms. -- Gillian Flynn
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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. -- Gillian Flynn
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A multichild household is a pit of petty jealousies, this I knew, and the Nash children were panicking at the idea of competing not just with one another, but with a dead sister. They had my sympathies. -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm the bitch who makes you a man. -- Gillian Flynn
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Two jobless grown-ups, we spent weeks wandering around our Brooklyn brownstone in socks and pajamas, ignoring the future, strewing unopened mail across tables and sofas, eating ice cream at ten A.M. and taking thick afternoon naps. -- Gillian Flynn
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Carl just needed to hear the clink of glasses, the glug of a drink being poured. I picked up the phone, shaking a tumbler of ice near the receiver so Carl could imagine his gin. -- Gillian Flynn
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All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain. Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. Not makes me feel, just makes me. I am fun. I am playful. I am game. I feel naturally happy and entirely satisfied. -- Gillian Flynn
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Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn't. -- Gillian Flynn
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You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay. -- Gillian Flynn
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When we got home, she'd trail off to her room like an unfinished sentence, and I would sit outside with my face pressed against her door and replay the day in my head, searching for clues to what I'd done to displease her. -- Gillian Flynn
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I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can. -- Gillian Flynn
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To show don't tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.) -- Gillian Flynn
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Every morning she'd crick herself down onto the flimsy rug by her bed and pray, but it was actually a promise: Today I won't yell, I won't cry, I won't clench up into a ball like I am waiting for a blow to level me. I will enjoy today. She might make it to lunch before she went sour. -- Gillian Flynn
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Nick's cell phone rings at ten A.M., and I can tell by his voice that it is Go. He sounds springy, boyish, the way he always does when he talks to her. The way he used to sound with me. He heads into the bedroom and shuts -- Gillian Flynn
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Being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to being a shallow person. -- Gillian Flynn
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I realized I'd be stuck doing all the hard stuff," she reasoned. "All the diapers and doctors' appointments and discipline, and you'd just breeze in and be Fun Daddy. I'd do all the work to make them good people, and you'd undo it anyway, and they'd love you and hate me. -- Gillian Flynn
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A town so small, you tripped over people you hated every day. -- Gillian Flynn
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But you should never put a fifteen-year-old on a witness stand in a courtroom filled with a bunch of people he knows and expect a lot of tears. -- Gillian Flynn
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Maybe I'd grow a garden of weeds. -- Gillian Flynn
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Do not antagonize the cops, I told myself. Repeat if necessary: Do not antagonize the cops. -- Gillian Flynn
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I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that. -- Gillian Flynn
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Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am. -- Gillian Flynn
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I hope you're feeling better about yourself too, Camille. That's an important thing, liking oneself. A good attitude infects just as easily as a bad one." "Enjoy the horses." "I always do. -- Gillian Flynn
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Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.

- Camille Preaker -- Gillian Flynn
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She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's not stand by your man anymore, it's divorce the fucker. -- Gillian Flynn
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At forty, a man wears the face he's earned. -- Gillian Flynn
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Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy. -- Gillian Flynn
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What does an administrative assistant do? I wondered. -- Gillian Flynn
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Would you still love me if I killed someone?" I said nothing. My breath was coming too fast. "I would still love you," Go said. "Go, do you really need me to say it?" She stayed silent. "I did not kill Amy." She stayed silent. "Do you believe me?" I asked. "I love you. -- Gillian Flynn
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She leaned forward on the table and said, I know we are having a tough time. I still love you so much, Nick, and I know I have a lot of things to work on. I want to be a good wife to you, and I want you to be my husband and be happy. But you need to decide what you want. -- Gillian Flynn
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We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sometimes when you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. -- Gillian Flynn
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I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking. -- Gillian Flynn
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People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was. -- Gillian Flynn
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If you can't take care of me while I'm alive, you have made me dead anyway. -- Gillian Flynn
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I've been tracking Nick's moods. Toward me. Just to make sure I'm not crazy. I've got a calendar, and I put hearts on any day Nick seems to love me again, and black squares when he doesn't. -- Gillian Flynn
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One snowy April night, I felt so lonely. I was drinking warm amaretto with Bleecker and reading, lying on the floor as the snow came down, listening to old scratchy albums, like Nick and I used to -- Gillian Flynn
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Probably drove in from Mission Hills, feeling magnanimous about setting foot north of the river. -- Gillian Flynn
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(The one thing I suspected about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy - he had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.) -- Gillian Flynn
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She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you. -- Gillian Flynn
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That's how I felt about this miserable quest: every person I talked to would let me down until I found the one person who could help me figure out that night. -- Gillian Flynn
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In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation. -- Gillian Flynn
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Kissi frowned ar him, then looked at me for explanation. I widened my eyes, grimaced: the look women give each other when they're embarrassed of the men they're with. -- Gillian Flynn
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He thought I'd be his best reporter, said I had a surprising mind. In my two years on the job I'd consistently fallen short of expectations. -- Gillian Flynn
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I had a new persona, not of my choosing. I was Average Dumb Woman Married to Average Shitty Man. He had single-handedly de-amazed Amazing Amy. -- Gillian Flynn
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Imagine the jacket copr: People behaved mostly well and then they died. -- Gillian Flynn
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Another time-honored ploy: A woman is less likely to throw you out if she's offered her hospitality. If you have allergies or a cold, asking for a tissue is even better. Women love vulnerability. Most women. -- Gillian Flynn
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Instead, she'd let it get even more overgrown and cobwebbed. We'd always joked that it would be a good place to bury a body. It couldn't be. -- Gillian Flynn
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You think you know the answer, you're going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there's any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. -- Gillian Flynn
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We had spent years battling for control of our marriage, of our love story, our life story. I had been thoroughly, finally outplayed. I created a manuscript, and she created a life. -- Gillian Flynn
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They say you can litter-box train them, but they lie. -- Gillian Flynn
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I really wanted the book to make money, in an obsessive childish way - that feeling that if I wanted it enough, it should happen. It should happen. -- Gillian Flynn
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I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. -- Gillian Flynn
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The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they're too lazy or stupid to pull off a switch. -- Gillian Flynn
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We are all overdressed in our little flashy frocks, our slasher heels, and we all eat small plates of food bites that are as decorative and unsubstantial as we are. -- Gillian Flynn
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They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. -- Gillian Flynn
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I have learned about bulk shopping in my four weeks as a Mississippi River resident. Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. But everyone buys bulk because - unlike Manhattanites - they all have space to store twenty-four jars of sweet pickles. -- Gillian Flynn
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Thank you, Gillian Flynn, for quoting The Sure Thing- Nick's the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn't mind if you puke in his car. Nick! -- Gillian Flynn
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His name is Nick. I love it. It makes him seem nice, and regular, which he is. When he tells me his name, I say, "Now, that's a real name." He brightens and reels off some line: "Nick's the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn't mind if you puke in his car. Nick!" He -- Gillian Flynn
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A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. -- Gillian Flynn
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My mother said she was the most popular girl in school, and I believed it. Jackie said she was the meanest, and I believed that, too. -- Gillian Flynn
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I'd never noticed him anywhere near the pool, but he knew my swimwear cold, which was flattering and alarming at the same time. -- Gillian Flynn
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I went into Andie's bathroom, took a piss, looked at myself in the mirror, and made myself say it: You are a cheater. You have failed one of the most basic male tests. You are not a good man. And when that didn't bother me, I thought: You're really not a good man. -- Gillian Flynn
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You do realize, that if you actually dated her, saw her on a regular basis, lived with her, that she would find some fault with you, right? That she would find some things about you that drove her crazy. That she'd make demands of you that you wouldn't like. That she'd get angry at you? -- Gillian Flynn
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The waitress, a plain brunette disguised as a pretty brunette... -- Gillian Flynn
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I suppose it's not a compromise if only one of you considers it such, but that was what our compromises tended to look like. One of us was always angry. -- Gillian Flynn
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I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating. -- Gillian Flynn
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Nonono, Nick,' Gilpin interrupted. He pulled a chair up to the table and sat on it backward. I wondered if cops actually did that. Or did some clever actor do that, and then cops began doing it because they'd seen the actors playing cops do that and it looked cool? -- Gillian Flynn
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My wife loved games, mostly mind games, but also actual games of amusement, -- Gillian Flynn
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I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people - people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin - that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life. -- Gillian Flynn
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That would be our luck. -- Gillian Flynn
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I just want to live until I can't anymore, she said. -- Gillian Flynn
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Des, who brought me things I wanted (tulips, wine) to make me do the things he wanted (love him). Nick just wanted me to be happy, that's all, very pure. Maybe I mistook that for laziness. -- Gillian Flynn
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Of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong, -- Gillian Flynn
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She is an incredibly intelligent idiot -- Gillian Flynn
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The truth is malleable; you just need to pick the right expert. -- Gillian Flynn
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I walk a loop around the neighborhood, waiting for Nick to appear, to guide me back to our house. The rain spackles me gently, dampening me. I really believe Nick will come after me. I turn toward the house and see only a closed door. -- Gillian Flynn
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I was already tired of talking, and I'd said very little. -- Gillian Flynn
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. -- Gillian Flynn
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She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog. -- Gillian Flynn
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Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed. -- Gillian Flynn
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I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff. -- Gillian Flynn
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And people loved me. I was no longer the pity case (with, how weird, the dead sister). I was the pretty girl (with, how sad, the dead sister). And so I was popular. -- Gillian Flynn
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The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious lust, to wall themselves away from sticky emotions. Extra space is always good. -- Gillian Flynn
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Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was true, Ben at age two was an astonishing thing. He'd demand love outright, grab at a breast or an arm, but as soon as he had enough affection, and that came quickly, he'd go completely limp, play dead until you let him go. -- Gillian Flynn
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I hate people who start conversations with facts - what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is. -- Gillian Flynn
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I was not that man: I didn't hate and fear all women. I was a one-woman misogynist. If I despised only Amy, focused all my fury and rage and venom on the one woman who deserved it, that didn't make me my father. That made me sane. -- Gillian Flynn
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Frank Curry thinks I'm a soft touch. Might be because I'm a woman. Might be because I'm a soft touch. -- Gillian Flynn
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Wouldn't it be so lovely to just forget about Nick, those awful five years, and move on? -- Gillian Flynn
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Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic. -- Gillian Flynn
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Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it. -- Gillian Flynn
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Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase? -- Gillian Flynn
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It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now. -- Gillian Flynn
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It seemed to me that she'd been expelled into this world not quite formed, -- Gillian Flynn
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Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. -- Gillian Flynn
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Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed. -- Gillian Flynn
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But I know I'll never sleep again. I can't close my eyes when I'm next to her. It's like sleeping with a spider. -- Gillian Flynn
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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone. -- Gillian Flynn
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There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick. -- Gillian Flynn
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I couldn't decide if I'd been mistreated. By Richard, by those boys who took my virginity, by anyone. I was never really on my side in any argument. -- Gillian Flynn
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At one point, she probably liked the idea of a daughter. When she was a girl, I bet she daydreamed of being a mother, of coddling, of licking her child like a milk-swelled cat. She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public, was a beloved child. -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm like that, nothing sticks. -- Gillian Flynn
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All the tut-tutters out there will say: She should have just left, bundled up what remained of her dignity. Take the high road! Two wrongs don't make a right! All those things that spineless women say, confusing their weakness with morality. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's a very female thing, isn't it, to take one boys' night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage? -- Gillian Flynn
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An inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship. -- Gillian Flynn
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I think this experience will make him a better person. Or at least a sorrier one. -- Gillian Flynn
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I put on a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown up, big-girl clothes never quite fitting. I'm barely five foot -- four foot, ten inches in truth, but I round up. Sue me. I'm thirty-one, but people tend to talk to me in singsong, like they want to give me fingerpaints. -- Gillian Flynn
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When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. -- Gillian Flynn
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You are better than any storybook, you are better than anything anyone could make up. -- Gillian Flynn
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You always take the extra step that others don't, that's who you are. -- Gillian Flynn
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Isn't a smile a girl's best weapon? -- Gillian Flynn
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I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me. -- Gillian Flynn
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I've always hovered above their stories, nodding in sympathy and thinking how foolish they are, these women, to let these things happen, how undisciplined. And now to be one of them! One of the women with the endless stories that make people nod sympathetically and think: Poor dumb bitch. -- Gillian Flynn
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Day, would meet harm on top of it? Wasn't I safe by default? -- Gillian Flynn
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She smoked so much she smelled like tobacco even after a shower, like if she slit her skin, menthol vapor would ooze out. He'd come to like it, it smelled like comfort and home to him, the way warm bread might to someone else. -- Gillian Flynn
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Shirtsleeve weather, jacket weather, overcoat weather, parka weather - the Year in Outerwear. For -- Gillian Flynn
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I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one. -- Gillian Flynn
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. -- Gillian Flynn
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They were women not strong enough or smart enough to leave. Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop. -- Gillian Flynn
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I was not raised by big-dreamer parents who pictured their child as a future president. I was raised by pragmatic parents who pictured their child as a future office worker of some sort, making a living of some sort. -- Gillian Flynn
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Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much. -- Gillian Flynn
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He is learning to love me unconditionally, under all my conditions. I think we are finally on our way to happiness. I have finally figured it out. -- Gillian Flynn
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Ska," I said, swerving toward delirious laughter. "Great. -- Gillian Flynn
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I knew you could do it, I knew you could, Libby," she mumbled into my hair, warm and smoky.
"Do what?"
"Try just a little harder. -- Gillian Flynn
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Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes. -- Gillian Flynn
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All this could have been avoided if I were less pretty. -- Gillian Flynn
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That is the correct grammar, you know: her husband and me. -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm a big fan of the lie of omission. -- Gillian Flynn
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It doesn't matter, because I have found my match. It's Nick, laid-back and calm, smart and fun and uncomplicated. Untortured, happy. Nice. Big penis. -- Gillian Flynn
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How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing. -- Gillian Flynn
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He looks like the rich-boy villain in an '80s teen movie - the one who bullies the sensitive misfit, the one who will end up with a pie in the puss, the whipped cream wilting his upturned collar as everyone in the cafeteria cheers. -- Gillian Flynn
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I'd come to find the morning depressing, to know it would come again and again. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was one of the few stories we told the same way. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's the rule of all potentially prickly interviews: Don't go on the offense until you have to, first see if they'll hang themselves all on their own. -- Gillian Flynn
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January was the season for house robberies and violence. Christmas was over, and the new year just reminded you of how little your life had changed, and man, people got angry in January. -- Gillian Flynn
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Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame. -- Gillian Flynn
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Love should require both partners to be very best at all times. -- Gillian Flynn
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The X had released its first wave of chemical optimism, I could feel it float up inside me like a big test balloon and splatter on the roof of my mouth, spraying good cheer. I could almost taste it, like a fizzy pink jelly. -- Gillian Flynn
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He's calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That's what men do: They try to make it sound like you are the Cool Girl so you will bow to their wishes. -- Gillian Flynn
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He's always been moody. Even when he was a baby he was like a cat. All snuggly one second and then the next, he'd be looking at you like he had no idea who you were. -- Gillian Flynn
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Three girls until, at last, their baby boy. As I sipped my bourbon and cracked peanuts, I pondered the growing desperation the Nashes must have felt each time a child popped out without a penis. -- Gillian Flynn
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I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. -- Gillian Flynn
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But I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. I can't do it, but I can applaud it in others. "Well," I said. "There are definitely -- Gillian Flynn
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You'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy -- Gillian Flynn
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We could have been day players in an amateur porn flick. -- Gillian Flynn
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He had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied. -- Gillian Flynn
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He felt like an animal limping away, some wounded buck that needed to be put down. -- Gillian Flynn
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But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library. -- Gillian Flynn
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I spoke in a soft, soothing voice, a voice wearing a cardigan. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was him. The boy in 'I met a boy! -- Gillian Flynn
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I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it's because you've ripped a hole in your skin. -- Gillian Flynn
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My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then deserted me? -- Gillian Flynn
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It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying. -- Gillian Flynn
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Because everyone loves the Dead Girl. -- Gillian Flynn
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So there it came, out of nowhere, as Rand begged for his daughter's return: a killer smile. -- Gillian Flynn
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There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die. -- Gillian Flynn
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It wasn't that I truly felt bad that I'd upset my mother - it was more that I hated any debits in her column. -- Gillian Flynn
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The casino seemed like a good idea at first - right off the highway, filled with drunks and elderly, neither of whom are known for eyesight. But I am feeling crowded and fidgety, aware of the cameras in every corner, the doors that could snap shut. -- Gillian Flynn
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No relationship is perfect, they say - they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation - yes, honey, okay, honey - is the same as concord. -- Gillian Flynn
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I finally understood - nearly twenty years too late. -- Gillian Flynn
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she day-dreamed about dying. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's easy to like pregnant women - they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs. -- Gillian Flynn
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I have a face you want to punch: -- Gillian Flynn
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Cute kids, really cute clothes. I'd just created a tagline for Wind Gaps' li'l shoppers. -- Gillian Flynn
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There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile,it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad. -- Gillian Flynn
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I am absolutely, one hundred percent sincere right now- I have your back, and I won't fuck with you. -- Gillian Flynn
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She needed the good mood, the way you need sleep after an all-nighter, the way you daydream of throwing yourself into bed. -- Gillian Flynn
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If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears. -- Gillian Flynn
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There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink. -- Gillian Flynn
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We Got Llamas!" Odd words to see in neon. -- Gillian Flynn
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We just want you to be happy.' Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how. So many lessons and opportunities and advantages, and they never taught me how to be happy. -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries. -- Gillian Flynn
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I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage. -- Gillian Flynn
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I had that overwhelming feeling I get when I'm about to give up on a plan, that big rush of air when I realize that my stroke of genius has flaws, and I don't have the brains or energy to fix them. -- Gillian Flynn
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Daydreams can be dangerous. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so -- Gillian Flynn
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I love you forever baby, he'd said. She knew immediately then that he'd leave. -- Gillian Flynn
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Who would I be without Amy to react to? Because she was right: As a man, I had been my most impressive when I loved her -- and I was my next best self when I hated her. -- Gillian Flynn
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Complicated custody arrangement) furrowing his brow as we pass a Love -- Gillian Flynn
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neighbors, I ran errands for Mo's -- Gillian Flynn
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I had no sympathy for drama queens. -- Gillian Flynn
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I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' -- Gillian Flynn
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How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow. -- Gillian Flynn
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Of course it was. -- Gillian Flynn
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And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices
and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive. -- Gillian Flynn
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I don't mind, I'm the Cool Girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they're fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. -- Gillian Flynn
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I was the girl who battles oblivion and won. The chances were about 1 percent, but I did it. -- Gillian Flynn
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[She was] sitting across from us, her legs pressed together to one side, like a slash mark. Pretty/professional. -- Gillian Flynn
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And then the strangest thought of all clattered drunkenly from the back of my brain to the front and blinded me: If I kill Amy, who will I be? -- Gillian Flynn
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At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen. -- Gillian Flynn
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I like rules that make sense, not rules without logic. -- Gillian Flynn
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To be kissed on the lips by your husband is the most decadent thing. -- Gillian Flynn
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Although watching her three children toddle to her, sleep-stained from their nap, rubbing their eyes while they make their way to Mama, little hands touching her knee or arm as if she were home base, as if they knew they were safe ... it hurts me sometimes to watch. -- Gillian Flynn
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My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'
He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.
But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.'
'Why?'
'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you. -- Gillian Flynn
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard. -- Gillian Flynn
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You're here covering the murders, bad girl," Jackie continued. "Adora must hate that. Sleeping in her house with your dirty little brain. ( ... ) Course before Adora took it over, we all slept over at Joya's house with our dirty little brains. Same house, different crazy lady running it. -- Gillian Flynn
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Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women - they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them. -- Gillian Flynn
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Andie was a physical girl, and that's not code for 'It's all about the sex'. She was a hugger, a toucher, she was prone to running her fingers through my hair or down my back in a friendly scratch. She got reassurance and comfort from touching. And yes, fine, she also liked sex. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was about the worst outcome possible for my competitive wife: a town of contented also-rans. -- Gillian Flynn
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Can say that?" I do want to start over with the right man, the New Nick. Things are looking bad for him, dire. Only I can save Nick from me. But I am trapped. "If you ever left here and I didn't -- Gillian Flynn
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I simply assumed I would bundle up my New York wife with her New York interests, her New York pride, and remove her from her New York parents - leave the frantic, thrilling futureland of Manhattan behind - and transplant her to a little town on the river in Missouri, and all would be fine. -- Gillian Flynn
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Libby was a Christmas baby, which meant she never got the right amount of presents. Patty would hold one extra gift aside - and Happy Birthday to Libby! - but they all knew the truth, Libby got ripped off. Libby rarely felt less than ripped off. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sick and sicker and sickest. What was real and what was fake? Was Amma really sick and needing my mother's medicine, or was the medicine what was making Amma sick? Did her blue pill make me vomit, or did it keep me from getting more ill than I'd have been without it? -- Gillian Flynn
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On the pavement near my car are the smashed skeletons of two baby birds, their flattened beaks and wings making them look reptilian. They've been there for a year. I can't resist looking at them each time I get in my car. We need a good flood, wash them away. -- Gillian Flynn
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Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer. -- Gillian Flynn
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Right now, she had an almost obsessive need to get home, nest up, feel safe. -- Gillian Flynn
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You'd be my pariah, and I'd love you no matter what, and I'd shield you from everything, Desi said. -- Gillian Flynn
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And before he leans in, he brushes the sugar from my lips so he can taste me. -- Gillian Flynn
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So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern. -- Gillian Flynn
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How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? -- Gillian Flynn
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I know that losing a job is incredibly stressful, and particularly for a man, they say it can be like a death in the family, -- Gillian Flynn
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too much, because it feels so good -- Gillian Flynn
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So let everyone take sides. Team Nick, Team Amy. Turn it into even more of a game: Sell some fucking T-shirts. -- Gillian Flynn
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being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die. There isn't a replacement toddling around; you're it. It makes you desperate to be flawless, and it also makes you drunk with the power. In such ways are despots made. -- Gillian Flynn
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He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool? -- Gillian Flynn
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Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they're easily offended. -- Gillian Flynn
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I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple. -- Gillian Flynn
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I think, immediately, that there is something wrong with us, perhaps unfixable, if my husband wouldn't think to tell me this. Sometimes I feel it's his personal game, that he's in some sort of undeclared contest for impenetrability. -- Gillian Flynn
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He killed my soul, which should be a crime. Actually, it is a crime. According to me, at least. -- Gillian Flynn
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No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters - from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia - I don't know, I always think about what will be lost - -- Gillian Flynn
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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm. -- Gillian Flynn
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She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale. Because it was never just that the door was unlocked, it was that the door was unlocked, and men were inside, and they were waiting to rape and kill her. -- Gillian Flynn
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That's how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks. -- Gillian Flynn
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The world will always want a drink. -- Gillian Flynn
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See, Curry, Detective Willis felt I was holding back some information and so he sulked off, like all men do when they don't get their way with women they've fooled around with. -- Gillian Flynn
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I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second. -- Gillian Flynn
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She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way. -- Gillian Flynn
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Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them. You know what is hard? Faking -- Gillian Flynn
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Stay away from boys. They'll either throw rocks or look up your skirt. -- Gillian Flynn
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort. -- Gillian Flynn
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She said in the way you might wish someone good luck on the lottery. -- Gillian Flynn
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People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. -- Gillian Flynn
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I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. She looks nice today, I'd think, but somehow it wouldn't occur to me to say it out loud. -- Gillian Flynn
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Vickery, a slim fellow in his early fifties, had already sweated through his uniform. His shirt clung to his chest, and his pants puckered out in back where an ass should have been. -- Gillian Flynn
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She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it. -- Gillian Flynn
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He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.) -- Gillian Flynn
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Worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately. -- Gillian Flynn
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I don't want her to kill you. I mean, someday you burn her grilled cheese, and the next thing you know, my phone's ringing and you've taken an awful fall from the roof or some shit. Leave. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's so strange to think: A year ago today, I was undoing my husband. Now I am almost done reassembling him. -- Gillian Flynn
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Love makes you want to be a better man - right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are. -- Gillian Flynn
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Marriage is compromise and hard work,and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter. -- Gillian Flynn
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He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain. -- Gillian Flynn
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My mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby. -- Gillian Flynn
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The man cocked his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back. -- Gillian Flynn
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You can like an immoral character because she's interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner. -- Gillian Flynn
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What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer? -- Gillian Flynn
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He wore a tiny turquoise stud earring I always associated with Dungeons and Dragons types. Men who own ferrets and think magic tricks are cool. -- Gillian Flynn
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If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book. -- Gillian Flynn
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Things might not be great, but things would be okay. -- Gillian Flynn
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I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone. -- Gillian Flynn
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The day after Independence Day, the sulfur from the fireworks mingling with the ocean salt - summer. -- Gillian Flynn
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Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet. -- Gillian Flynn
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Mom, Dad, Baby, they were three advanced people with three advanced degrees in psychology - they thought more before nine A.M. than most people thought all month. -- Gillian Flynn
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Here in Missouri, the women shop at Target, they make diligent, comforting meals, they laugh about how little high school Spanish they remember. -- Gillian Flynn
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My father had infused my childhood with unspoken blame. He was the kind of man who scoped around looking for things to be angry at. It had turned me into a knee-jerk suck-up to authority - Mom, Dad, teachers. 'Whatever makes your job easier, sir or madam.' I craved a constant stream of approval. -- Gillian Flynn
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You are turning me into what I never have been and never wanted to be, a nag, because you are not living up to your end of a very basic contract. Don't do that, it's not okay to do. -- Gillian Flynn
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I don't even want to ask,' he said.
'You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people. -- Gillian Flynn
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teeth coming down on the tip of my -- Gillian Flynn
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Yet most of the time that I'm awake, I want to cut. Not small words either. Equivocate. Inarticulate. Duplicitous. At my hospital back in Illinois they would not approve of this craving. -- Gillian Flynn
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There was just me, left wretched in my childhood bed. -- Gillian Flynn
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What kind of woman gets slaughtered by her own son? -- Gillian Flynn
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Diane didn't worry, that was for less hearty women. -- Gillian Flynn
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Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. -- Gillian Flynn
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I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way. -- Gillian Flynn
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His life was a long line of denials, just waiting for him. -- Gillian Flynn
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Don't be a scared, dickless boy all your life, letting people push you around, letting people bring up the fear in you. -- Gillian Flynn
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Unremarkable, but with a brainy arrogance wafting from them. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sometimes I feel like Nick has decided on a version of me that doesn't exist. -- Gillian Flynn
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Stretched our legs, shook ourselves awake. The night -- Gillian Flynn
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...I am stuck here on earth, and every day is a chance to be less than perfect. -- Gillian Flynn
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He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual. -- Gillian Flynn
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If you couldn't find something in thirty seconds, you were losing money, his father always said. Return phone calls immediately was another rule Clay had been taught to obey. -- Gillian Flynn
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She'd used the treasure hunt to take me on a tour of all my infidelities. -- Gillian Flynn
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It felt almost enjoyable, like gnawing on a cuticle: You know you should stop, that it doesnt really feel as good as you think, but you cant quit grinding it away. -- Gillian Flynn
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite -- Gillian Flynn
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My feelings for her were veering too quickly from bitter to sweet. -- Gillian Flynn
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Shotgun blasts in a small hallway. The panicked, jaybird cries of my mother, still trying to save her kids with half her head gone. -- Gillian Flynn
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Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen. -- Gillian Flynn
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this town is sometimes too much, so desperate and so in denial. -- Gillian Flynn
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He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better. -- Gillian Flynn
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective. -- Gillian Flynn
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Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and averageness. -- Gillian Flynn
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I just figured you'd be too proud. Self-conscious and proud. I was a rather nasty cocktail of both those traits, -- Gillian Flynn
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Imagine the righteous dismay when Ann arrived. She got slapped with some family name - didn't even get the extra e to ornament it a bit. -- Gillian Flynn
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Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, and let the cameras get their fifteen seconds, and I whispered deep inside her ear, 'You fucking bitch. -- Gillian Flynn
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I know I am right not to settle, -- Gillian Flynn
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Sometimes it is all too loud. -- Gillian Flynn
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Len never said hello as a greeting; he said something like a yodel, He-a-lo! -- Gillian Flynn
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You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't, they're so numb they won't feel anything? -- Gillian Flynn
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I'll be interested to hear what the swine has to say for himself, he says. Desi rarely says jackfuck or shitbag; he says swine, which sounds more poisonous on his lips. -- Gillian Flynn
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Don't women think that all men are jerky twelve-year-olds at heart?" "Hey, if the heart fits. -- Gillian Flynn
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Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past. -- Gillian Flynn
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Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can't stop them? You can't do anything, you just have to wait? -- Gillian Flynn
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can feel a better version of me somewhere -- Gillian Flynn
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There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold. -- Gillian Flynn
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(never entirely erased the stink, though - she must have one rank pussy), -- Gillian Flynn
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But she did invite me to her house, and women like that don't invite over women like me unless they want something. -- Gillian Flynn
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Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss. The -- Gillian Flynn
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They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss. -- Gillian Flynn
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We were the two unlikeliest people to charm information out of someone. Stunted human beings who got awkward every time we tried to express ourselves. -- Gillian Flynn
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The woman got shit done, and she was not one to abandon a project (say, her fixer-upper husband, for instance), even if she decided she didn't like it. -- Gillian Flynn
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And she'd feel sorry for the kids, but not in a way that made her want to help, just in a way that made her not want to look at them anymore. -- Gillian Flynn
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I was a man of jagged risings -- Gillian Flynn
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The woman's entire music collection is formed from Pottery Barn compilations. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was an itinerary for an alternate life. If things had gone according to my wife's vision, yesterday she would have hovered near me as I read this poem, watching me expectantly, the hope emanating from her like a fever: *Please get this. Please get me.* -- Gillian Flynn
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My dad was a man of infinite varieties of bitterness, rage, distaste. In my lifelong struggle to avoid becoming him, I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. -- Gillian Flynn
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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. -- Gillian Flynn
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He needed no foreplay for the interview, and I was grateful. It's like sweet-talking your date when you both know you're about to get laid. -- Gillian Flynn
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I take a giant breath, roll my anger up into a red rubber ball, and mentally kick it out into space. -- Gillian Flynn
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Always have a backup plan to the backup plan. -- Gillian Flynn
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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. -- Gillian Flynn
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Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails. -- Gillian Flynn
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Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds. -- Gillian Flynn
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My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past.. -- Gillian Flynn
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Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true. -- Gillian Flynn
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Three minutes, so I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song - is there ever a time you turn on the radio and don't hear a Tom Petty song? - -- Gillian Flynn
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I changed my name for that piece of shit. Historical records have been altered - Amy Elliott to Amy Dunne - like it's nothing. No, he does not get to win. -- Gillian Flynn
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Cameras flashed. I turned away and saw spots. It was surreal. That's what people always say to describe moments that are merely unusual. I thought: You have no fucking idea what surreal is. My hangover was really warming up now, my left eye throbbing like a heart. -- Gillian Flynn
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I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief. -- Gillian Flynn
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But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move. -- Gillian Flynn
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on the way to the beauty parlor. -- Gillian Flynn
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But fact is, it's been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be
with anyone. -- Gillian Flynn
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serve as the Find Amy Dunne -- Gillian Flynn
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I'd let the words run over my brain and out my ears, like a terrified cancer patient hearing all that coded jargon and understanding nothing, except that it was very bad news. -- Gillian Flynn
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You're a man who cheats on his wife, you can't ever undo that. -- Gillian Flynn
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Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry. -- Gillian Flynn
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Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it. -- Gillian Flynn
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The Dunne kids don't perform hugs well. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's every asshole's mantra: I married a psycho bitch. But I got a small, nasty bite of gratification: I really did marry a genuine, bona fide psycho bitch. Nick, meet your wife: the world's foremost mindfucker. -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm tired of dying. -- Gillian Flynn
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It makes me think that everyone is very wrong, that love should have many conditions. Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times. Unconditional love is an undisciplined love, and as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life
in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been. -- Gillian Flynn
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I sat in a room the color of egg yolk for two hours while the officer got my story down. The whole time I was thinking about Natalie going to autopsy, and how I would like to sneak in and put a fresh Band-Aid on her knee. -- Gillian Flynn
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When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen. -- Gillian Flynn
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... it's a nice day's work when you make a lot of people smile. -- Gillian Flynn
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I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with. -- Gillian Flynn
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People judge. Fast -- Gillian Flynn
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Sixty seconds is a long time to know you are dying. -- Gillian Flynn
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our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and -- Gillian Flynn
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I think if you had a dick, all sorts of bad things would happen. -- Gillian Flynn
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This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion. -- Gillian Flynn
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I noticed Stucks was wearing - maybe ironically, possibly not - a T-shirt that read Save Gas, Fart in a Jar. -- Gillian Flynn
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I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs. -- Gillian Flynn
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Just ... No, Amy. Not right now. I can't take one more bit of stress. I can't handle one more thing to worry about. I am cracking under the pressure. I will snap. For once I know he's telling the truth. -- Gillian Flynn
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I was raised in the city by a one-eyed mother... -- Gillian Flynn
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Such: From the first morning after the move, when she -- Gillian Flynn
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The world is black and then, showtime! -- Gillian Flynn
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It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all. -- Gillian Flynn
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This was my eleventh lie. -- Gillian Flynn
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We could leave the country if you want. Live in Spain, Italy, wherever you like, spend our days eating mangoes in the sun. Sleep late, play Scrabble, flip through books aimlessly, swim in the ocean. -- Gillian Flynn
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Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Serenity Prayer. -- Gillian Flynn
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People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt, -- Gillian Flynn
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It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time. -- Gillian Flynn
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He has given me exactly ten Fritos and then secreted away the bag. He doesn't like the smell; it offends him, he says, but what he really doesn't like is my weight. -- Gillian Flynn
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The bad guy wins? Fuck him. -- Gillian Flynn
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The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do? -- Gillian Flynn
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She was wearing a black pantsuit with a pale pink turtleneck underneath, a painfully aspirational look for a stripper. -- Gillian Flynn
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A few moments of discipline. What a pure way to die. -- Gillian Flynn
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Good catch," Tanner said. "Next time do it before it comes out of your mouth. -- Gillian Flynn
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You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity, -- Gillian Flynn
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It is always consoling to think of suicide;
it's what gets one through many a bad night. -- Gillian Flynn
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When I take to my bed, it's good to know whether I'm sick or just lazy. -- Gillian Flynn
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his eyes flashing like dimes. -- Gillian Flynn
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*You're so hateful.* *I learned at your feet.* -- Gillian Flynn
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What are you thinking, Amy? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we ddone to each other? What will we do? -- Gillian Flynn
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I knew I liked her then, really liked her, this girl with an explanation for everything. -- Gillian Flynn
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My thank-yous always come out rather labored. I often don't give them at all. People do what they're supposed to do and then wait for you to pile on the appreciation
they're like frozen-yogurt employees who put out cups for tips. -- Gillian Flynn
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Should I remove my soul before I come inside? -- Gillian Flynn
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What do I say to a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off? -- Gillian Flynn
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Money is wasted on the rich. -- Gillian Flynn
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I'd always liked our inside jokes the best - they made me feel more connected to Amy than any amount of confessional truth-telling or passionate lovemaking or talk-till-sunrising. -- Gillian Flynn
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She'd always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn't want it. -- Gillian Flynn
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There are no really new stories anymore. -- Gillian Flynn
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If you were chopping up hookers or eating runaways, you'd try to look normal. -- Gillian Flynn
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I think it's fair to say I am a writer. I'm using this journal to get better: to hone my skills, to collect details and observations. To show don't tell and all that other writerly crap. -- Gillian Flynn
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I've always thought I could commit the perfect murder. People who get caught get caught because they don't have patience; they refuse to plan. -- Gillian Flynn
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It is one of those big-smelling days, when people bring the outdoors in with them, the scent of rain on their sleeves, in their hair. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was my fifth lie to the police. I was just starting. -- Gillian Flynn
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If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas, -- Gillian Flynn
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest. -- Gillian Flynn
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Mama Mo does not insist. She simply makes things a reality by assuming they are such: -- Gillian Flynn
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If she were alive, someone would need to return her. If she were dead, nature would have to give her up. -- Gillian Flynn
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The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. -- Gillian Flynn
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Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think. -- Gillian Flynn
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If I had a dick, I would fuck this peanut butter, -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one. -- Gillian Flynn
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So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression. -- Gillian Flynn
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She was humming something melancholy and familiar. I strained to make it out - a folk song? a lullabye? - and then realized it was the theme to M*A*S*H. Suicide is painless. I went downstairs. -- Gillian Flynn
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In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: "I wish I'd be murdered." Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive. -- Gillian Flynn
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Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person. -- Gillian Flynn
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He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am. -- Gillian Flynn
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She tried to speak; her mouth opened, once, twice, silent, a mermaid washed ashore. -- Gillian Flynn
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Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding's wife, "the Duchess," who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook and avenged herself accordingly. Today I like my first ladies with a little bite. I -- Gillian Flynn
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The world will always need a drink -- Gillian Flynn
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Diary Amy. She was meant to be likable. Meant for someone like you to like her. She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you. No matter. -- Gillian Flynn
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We called them Tonys, because my dad was named Tony and he could never say no to anyone (although I assume he said no to my mom at least once, when she asked him to stay). -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was commonly known that Annabelle absolutely hated her husband's last name - she even crumpled up her nose when she said it. It never occurred to her that she didn't have to take it. -- Gillian Flynn
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We are one long frightening climax. -- Gillian Flynn
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another. A single bird flew by at eye level, then shot straight up to the treetops. A grasshopper landed suddenly on my wrist. Creepy magic. -- Gillian Flynn
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They pictured themselves dashing around Manhattan, latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, adorably breaking a designer heel while hailing a cab, and falling into the arms of a charming, disarming soul mate with winningly floppy hair. -- Gillian Flynn
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How are you, it wasn't a courtesy, it was an existential question. -- Gillian Flynn
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Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber. -- Gillian Flynn
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Marrow-deep embarrassment, the kind that becomes part of your DNA, that changes you. -- Gillian Flynn
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Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction, -- Gillian Flynn
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It is from Costco. I have learned about bulk shopping in my four weeks as a Mississippi River resident. Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. But everyone buys bulk -- Gillian Flynn
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Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively. -- Gillian Flynn
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The nurses gave us meds to alleviate our tingling skins. And more meds to soothe our burning brains. -- Gillian Flynn
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Angie's house looked like a child's drawing of a mansion: It was so generic it was barely three-dimensional. -- Gillian Flynn
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How odd, that I ruined my marriage over that little girl with whom I had nothing in common except that we both liked a good laugh and a cold beer after sex. -- Gillian Flynn
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Nothing to it but to do it. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sometimes the answer is at the bottom of a bottle, -- Gillian Flynn
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Sometimes it is all too loud. T -- Gillian Flynn
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Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again. -- Gillian Flynn
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My husband is the most loyal man on the planet until he's not. -- Gillian Flynn
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First thing she said to me once we got our food: I have one daughter. Thirteen years old. Mia. For Mia Hamm. She was born the day we won the World Cup. So, that's my daughter. -- Gillian Flynn
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He was not my actual father-who would have loved me and spent time with me-but a benevolent and vaguely important figure named Mr. Brown -- Gillian Flynn
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He'd have to work to make me comfortable here, and he doesn't want to do that. He wants to enjoy himself. -- Gillian Flynn
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We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style. -- Gillian Flynn
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If he knew I was doing a year from now already, he'd run and I'd be obliged to cheer him on.) -- Gillian Flynn
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easy. It's interesting, the timing. Propitious, -- Gillian Flynn
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The moral to the story being: Mr. Binks was a cheating dickweasel, but, you know, marriage is compromise. -- Gillian Flynn
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I don't get why I need to prove my love to you by remembering the exact same things you do, the exact same way you do. It doesn't mean I don't love our life together. -- Gillian Flynn
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A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark. -- Gillian Flynn
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That have never known inhabitants, or homes that have known owners and seen them ejected, the house standing triumphantly voided, humanless. -- Gillian Flynn
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I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them. -- Gillian Flynn
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The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history. -- Gillian Flynn
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Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder. -- Gillian Flynn
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Everyone has their own version of a memory, -- Gillian Flynn
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It is dangerous to laugh at your spouse. -- Gillian Flynn
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In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness. -- Gillian Flynn
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I know, I know, I'm being a girl. -- Gillian Flynn
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We will have a happy marriage if it kills him. -- Gillian Flynn
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but it seems like part of your heart can never work if you don't have kids. Like it will always be shut off. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings. -- Gillian Flynn
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She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. -- Gillian Flynn
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I realized I was humming "Uncle John's Band" to myself for no good reason. -- Gillian Flynn
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Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich. -- Gillian Flynn
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People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges. -- Gillian Flynn
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soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags. -- Gillian Flynn
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The Day women were the definition of mob mentality. And here they were on a farm with plenty of pitchforks. -- Gillian Flynn
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It seemed like a joke, how much all of these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just erased your features, rubbed out anything distinctive. -- Gillian Flynn
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My brother slaughtered my family when I was seven. My mom, two sisters, gone: bang bang, chop chop, choke choke. -- Gillian Flynn
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Everywhere I go is the river. I'm following it or it's following me. I know, suddenly, what I must do.
Meredith -- Gillian Flynn
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Amy's story could have gone a million other ways, but she met me, and bad things happened. -- Gillian Flynn
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Just got to keep on keeping on -- Gillian Flynn
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The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sometimes that's what happens. No cigarette burns, no bone snaps. Just an irretrievable slipping. -- Gillian Flynn
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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to. -- Gillian Flynn
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The climax is when you are taught the lesson that Punch never learns, and you are caught and charged with murder. -- Gillian Flynn
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You two worshipful, adoring assholes created that thing down the hall and set her loose on the world. -- Gillian Flynn
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Amy Elliot Dunne is like a yeti - coveted and folkloric - ... -- Gillian Flynn
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It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. -- Gillian Flynn
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I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That's how I'd stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristine. I pictured my pelvis split open, to reveal a tidy hollow, like the nest of a vanished animal. -- Gillian Flynn
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I woke up on my sister's couch with a raging hangover and an urge to kill my wife. -- Gillian Flynn
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Coffee goes great with sudden death. -- Gillian Flynn
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Oh, that sounds like too -- Gillian Flynn
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And then I knew I didn't love Amy anymore -- Gillian Flynn
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I love that I am a woman with booby traps -- Gillian Flynn
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I've basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. -- Gillian Flynn
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I had to know I could love a person unconditionally, that I could make a little creature feel constantly welcome and wanted no matter what. That I could be a different kind of father than my dad was. -- Gillian Flynn
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I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good. -- Gillian Flynn
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Now, I like a writer party, I like writers, I am the child of writers, I am a writer. I still love scribbling that word - WRITER - anytime -- Gillian Flynn
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There were a lot of people who deserved a lesson, deserved to really understand, that nothing came easy, that most things were going to go sour. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sometimes you need to get lost for a little. -- Gillian Flynn
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TV goes to a commercial for air freshener. A woman is spraying air freshener so her family will be happy. -- Gillian Flynn
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My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am. -- Gillian Flynn
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Well, a little girl is more likely to trust a person who reminds her of her momma, right? Depends on what her momma's like, I thought. -- Gillian Flynn
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I have a mistress. Now is the part where I have to tell you I have a mistress and you stop liking me. If you liked me to begin with. I have a pretty, young, very young mistress, and her name is Andie. -- Gillian Flynn
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This is the hardest part: waiting for stupid people to figure things out. -- Gillian Flynn
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Weird that a house so new could feel haunted, and not in the romantic Victorian-novel way, just really gruesomely, shittily ruined. -- Gillian Flynn
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If you don't have money, gossip isn't bad leverage. Even inside one's own family. -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real. -- Gillian Flynn
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Safer to be feared than loved. -- Gillian Flynn
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And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They're not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they're pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be ... -- Gillian Flynn
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I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. Sometimes women do. -- Gillian Flynn
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It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed. -- Gillian Flynn
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I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don't really like that kind of book.' It's akin to marking yourself as proudly poorly read. -- Gillian Flynn
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Everyone has a moment when life goes off the rails. -- Gillian Flynn
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Ninety degrees but the heat made me feel safe, like walking under water. -- Gillian Flynn
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She had an unnecessarily loud voice, a bit of a bray, like some enchanted, hot donkey. -- Gillian Flynn
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Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God. -- Gillian Flynn
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before it ever opened. It was -- Gillian Flynn
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The house was like something from a catalog, and there were two BMWs in the driveway and these were not people who -- Gillian Flynn
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I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ. -- Gillian Flynn
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showtime! 6-0-0 the clock said - in my face, first thing -- Gillian Flynn
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My body was heading into a flare. I paced a bit, tried to remember how to breathe right, how to calm my skin. But it blared at me. Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own. -- Gillian Flynn
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He Giving Treed me out of existence. -- Gillian Flynn
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So I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song - is there ever a time you turn on the radio and don't hear a Tom Petty song? - so -- Gillian Flynn
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Women are crazy. Go didn't consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively. -- Gillian Flynn
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He promised to take care of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse. -- Gillian Flynn
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No wedding ring. I wondered when I began to notice such things. -- Gillian Flynn
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You have to admit you're a jerk and that everything was all your fault." "So, like, what men are supposed to do in general," I said. -- Gillian Flynn
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Barb's house, when I finally -- Gillian Flynn
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She's a planner. She doesn't, you know, wing anything. She likes to make lists and check things off, get things done. -- Gillian Flynn
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Most beautiful, good things are done by women people scorn. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked. -- Gillian Flynn
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My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.' -- Gillian Flynn
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To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way. -- Gillian Flynn
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I could feel my limbs disconnecting, floating nearby like driftwood on an oily lake. -- Gillian Flynn
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You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. -- Gillian Flynn
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You should have been nicer to her, Nick. You should have eaten the fucking pie. -- Gillian Flynn
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But facts were facts, and people didn't get to turn Amy into everyone's beloved best friend just because it was emotionally expedient. -- Gillian Flynn
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Once you've crossed state lines, you don't phone to ask if you can drop in. -- Gillian Flynn
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It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. -- Gillian Flynn
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I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie. -- Gillian Flynn
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I will find you, Amy.
Lovesick words, hateful intentions. -- Gillian Flynn
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My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see. -- Gillian Flynn
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I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. -- Gillian Flynn
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I was sometimes as guilty of playing the figure-me-out game as Amy was. -- Gillian Flynn
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Danish. I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival. -- Gillian Flynn
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. -- Gillian Flynn
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The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue. -- Gillian Flynn
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My story for the day was a limp sort of evil. -- Gillian Flynn
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Books are temporary , dicks are forever -- Gillian Flynn
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No one I've loved has ever not had an agenda. -- Gillian Flynn
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Friends see most of each other's flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit. -- Gillian Flynn
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Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it. -- Gillian Flynn
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Third choice is a single woman who has that open look. You know it : The same woman you stop to ask for directions or the time of day, that's the woman we ask for money. -- Gillian Flynn
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People have to do awful things for money. -- Gillian Flynn
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I do know that framing your husband for your murder is beyond the pale of what an average would do. But it's so very necessary. -- Gillian Flynn
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year. -- Gillian Flynn
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Voice. We'll get slowly lazy-drunk on good -- Gillian Flynn
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All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood. It was kind of romantic. Catastrophically romantic. -- Gillian Flynn
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Amy knew that was what I had loved most about us back when I loved us: not the big moments, not the Romantic with capital-R moments, but our secret inside jokes. -- Gillian Flynn
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To me, all that urgent hopefulness was more frightening than if I'd found a pile of skulls with hair still attached. -- Gillian Flynn
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We're on your side, but we need the truth. The only thing that makes you look bad is you holding out on us. -- Gillian Flynn
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One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things. -- Gillian Flynn
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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh. -- Gillian Flynn
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I can do pretty much anything. A ghost has that freedom. -- Gillian Flynn
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Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done. -- Gillian Flynn
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely. -- Gillian Flynn
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Nick grew up with a father who never ever apologized, so when Nick feels he has screwed up he goes on offense. -- Gillian Flynn
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted. -- Gillian Flynn
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Bear gifts if you can't bear anything else. -- Gillian Flynn
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An old guy with a Hemingway beard and the build of a girl. -- Gillian Flynn
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She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive. -- Gillian Flynn
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Back when people read things on paper, -- Gillian Flynn
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I've had the blues for twenty-four years. -- Gillian Flynn
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Imagine the awful satisfaction, to know that all those years of worry had paid off. -- Gillian Flynn
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I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters. -- Gillian Flynn
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I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me. -- Gillian Flynn
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It was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife. -- Gillian Flynn
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A ghost has that freedom. -- Gillian Flynn
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I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. -- Gillian Flynn
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Noelle forced the crowd to part for -- Gillian Flynn
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Save Gas, Fart in a Jar. -- Gillian Flynn
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Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) -- Gillian Flynn
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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie. -- Gillian Flynn
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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn. -- Gillian Flynn
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That's what I did, though - I had angry, defensive conversations in my head, got mad at things that hadn't even happened yet. Yet. -- Gillian Flynn
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DNA to me was some sort of magical element, some glowing goo that was always getting people out of prison -- Gillian Flynn
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He has a great smile, a cat's smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me. -- Gillian Flynn
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I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it. -- Gillian Flynn
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I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence. -- Gillian Flynn
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Reporters are like vampires, Curry likes to say. They can't come into your home without your invitation, but once they're there, you won't get them out till they've sucked you dry. -- Gillian Flynn
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He never had the talent, just the hard wish. -- Gillian Flynn
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I sat at the bottom of the bathtub, humiliated, trying not to cry. So -- Gillian Flynn
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I rolled my eyes and set my head in my hands, as if it was too much for me, and it almost was. -- Gillian Flynn
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I created a manuscript, and she created a life. I -- Gillian Flynn
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting. -- Gillian Flynn
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You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who'd like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. -- Gillian Flynn
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Clean and bleed. Bleed and clean. -- Gillian Flynn
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And I smell like fish. -- Gillian Flynn
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. -- Gillian Flynn
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That's the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain. -- Gillian Flynn
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I got it, Go said. Go home, fuck her brains out, then smack her with your penis and scream, There's some wood for you bitch! -- Gillian Flynn
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of all this?" Gilpin -- Gillian Flynn
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Beer or three. My nerves were still singing from the morning. -- Gillian Flynn
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Women are fucking crazy. No qualifier: Not some women, not many women. Women are crazy. -- Gillian Flynn
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It's an insane, insane crime, a lot of it isn't going to make sense. That's why people are so obsessed with these murders. If they made any sense, they wouldn't really be mysteries, right? -- Gillian Flynn
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That easy, huh?" "You just have to decide to do it and then do it," she said. "Discipline. Follow through. Like anything. -- Gillian Flynn
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I don't know anyone's name. If one of those women died, I couldn't even say, "Poor old Mrs. Zalinsky died." I'd have to say, "That mean old bitch across the street bit it. -- Gillian Flynn
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tomboy. I'm actually -- Gillian Flynn
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And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls. -- Gillian Flynn
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Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. -- Gillian Flynn
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Why bother? It's impossible to compete with the dead. -- Gillian Flynn
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That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller. -- Gillian Flynn
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There might be a space too, for this. The feel of killing, there might be an empty spot just waiting to be filled. -- Gillian Flynn
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I don't want to panic them,' I said. 'If we don't -- Gillian Flynn
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Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. -- Gillian Flynn
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Problems always start long before you really, really see them. -- Gillian Flynn
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occurred! Amy was shot! But then I realized -- Gillian Flynn
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Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou, I chanted, -- Gillian Flynn
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I'm always looking for a reason to disregard. -- Gillian Flynn
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Do you understand this is serious?"
"I understand you think it's serious. -- Gillian Flynn
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No parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. -- Gillian Flynn
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People do what they're supposed to do and then wait for you to pile on the appreciation - they're -- Gillian Flynn
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see a 3 and an 8. (He said.) And then work -- Gillian Flynn
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I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. -- Gillian Flynn
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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen. -- Gillian Flynn
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Glanced past Ben but didn't register him, his eyes floating out to an imaginary -- Gillian Flynn
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I might as well have said dot dot dot aloud. -- Gillian Flynn
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We're all bitches in the end, aren't we... -- Gillian Flynn
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Who spends so much time worrying about -- Gillian Flynn
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He was verbally poking a bruise. -- Gillian Flynn
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Item 33: Get the fuck out of Dodge. Check, check, check. -- Gillian Flynn
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Everyone is nice. They are literally as nice as they can be. -- Gillian Flynn
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about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy - he had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was -- Gillian Flynn