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Clean and bleed. Bleed and clean.
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The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can't anymore. I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who grew up with TV and movies and now the internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the ..
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Go sat quietly, the orange of the streetlight creating a rock-star halo around her profile. "This is going to be a real test for you, Nick," she murmured, not looking at me. "You've always had trouble with the truth--you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You've always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to church when you were at a movi..
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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.
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no entiendo por que necesito demostrarte mi amor recordando exactamente las mismas cosas que tu, exactamente de la misma manera que las recuerdas tu.
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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
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The ones who are not soul-mated - the ones who have settled - are even more dismissive of my singleness: It's not that hard to find someone to marry, they say. 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. He's doing what you tell him to do because he doesn't ca..
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I had no sympathy for drama queens.
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Amy will be fine. Amy ..." Here was where I should have said, "Amy loves Mom." But I couldn't tell Go that Amy loved our mother, because after all that time, Amy still barely knew our mother. Their few meetings had left them both baffled. Amy would dissect the conversations for days after--"And what did she mean by ..."--as if my mother were some ancient peasant tribeswoman arriving from the tundra with an armful of raw yak meat and some bu..
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in-laws
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Era la encarnacion del peor temor de cualquier escritor: un cliche
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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.
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Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou, I chanted,
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Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kids grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground..
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That was another of my mom's words: glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.
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Normally, Richard was the kind of guy I disliked, someone born and raised plush: looks, charm, smarts, probably money. These men were never very interesting to me; they had no edges, and they were usually cowards. They instinctively fled any situation that might cause them embarrassment or awkwardness. But Richard didn't bore me. Maybe because his grin was a little crooked. Or because he made his living dealing in ugly things.
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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.
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I was busy thinking of all the people that had been harmed: intentionally, accidentally, deservedly, unfairly, slightly, completely.
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It was one of the few stories we told the same way.
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gone-girl
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in on myself, ignoring my meal, projecting glumness. That was another of my mom's words: glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.
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'sh`r b'nny 'ftqd mnzln lqdym. 'ftqd l~ kl lntwt w lHwf, w ltshqqt ldqyq@ lty trkth fyh `qwd mn lzmn lzwj@ lmfqwd@, S150
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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.
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the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can't anymore. I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; whe..
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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.
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I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
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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.
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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.
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The problem started long before that, of course. Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
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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. 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. It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. I would have done anything to feel..
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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.
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I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured. But I was out of places to write, slicing myself between my toes--bad, cry--like a junkie looking for one last vein. Vanish did it for me. I'd saved the neck, such a nice prime spot, for one final good cutting. Then I turned myself in.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.
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manipulation
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Frankly, I think Adora prefers us to feel like strangers. She wants all relationships in the house to run through her.
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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.
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smart-boys fuck like they're composing a piece of math rock: This hand strums around here, and then this finger offers a nice bass rhythm....
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The children in the woods play wild, secret games.
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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.
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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.
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For over a year now, I've smelled her twat on his fingertips as he slipped into bed next to me. I've watched him ogle himself in the mirror, grooming like a horny baboon for their dates. I've listened to his lies, lies, lies - from simplistic child's fibs to elaborate Rube Goldbergian contraptions. I've tasted butterscotch on his dry-kiss lips, a cloying flavor that was never there before. I've felt the stubble on his cheeks that he knows I..
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the Cool Girl. Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she's hosting the world's biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls a..
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Just like Nick, who destroyed and rejected the real me a piece at a time - you're too serious, Amy, you're too uptight, Amy, you overthink things, you analyze too much, you're no fun anymore, you make me feel useless, Amy, you make me feel bad, Amy. He took away chunks of me with blase swipes: my independence, my pride, my esteem. I gave, and he took and took. He Giving Treed me out of existence. That whore, he picked that little whore over..
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Gillian Flynn |