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But even as he was thinking this, he knew he'd have to aim smaller. That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller.
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There is such a thing as a pretty trailer park, you know. Diane
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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." Feeling" --
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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"
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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.
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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.
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But I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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The Dunne kids don't perform hugs well.
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I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am. I feel like a warm gust of wind could exhale my way and I'd be disappeared forever, not even a sliver of fingernail left behind. On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me. My
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How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? Anything could happen.
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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. I
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Shirtsleeve weather, jacket weather, overcoat weather, parka weather--the Year in Outerwear. For
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Gillian Flynn |
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Sometimes it is all too loud. T
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Gillian Flynn |
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I opened the door. Nonononono.
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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. I
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If you don't have money, gossip isn't bad leverage. Even inside one's own family.
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All those milk-fed, hog-fed, beef-fed early years. All those extra hormones we put in our livestock. We'll be seeing toddlers with tits before long.
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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.
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You're in exquisite pain, you're not sleeping.' the mention of insomnia was always risky but usually paid off. People in pain don't general sleep well, insomniacs are exquisitely great full for people to recognize their weariness.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I could build my days around charity committees and home decoration and gardening and volunteering, and I don't think there's anything wrong with building a life around those things. Most beautiful, good things are done by women people scorn.
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Gillian Flynn |
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She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. I
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The Days never won anything. They always said that, marveling, whenever they had a tiny piece of good luck: We never win anything! It was the family motto.
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There's no 'When Your Wife Goes Missing 101.
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Es una era muy dificil en la que ser persona. Simplemente una persona real, autentica, en vez de una coleccion de rasgos seleccionados a partir de una interminable galeria de personajes. Y si todos interpretamos un papel, es imposible que exista nada semejante a un companero del alma, porque lo que tenemos no son almas de verdad. Habia llegado hasta tal extremo que ya nada parecia tener importancia, porque yo no era una persona real y tampo..
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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. It's the Day blood. Something's wrong with it.
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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. IT
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You recognize her?" He actually looked stricken. "She wanted to buy a gun."
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Sometimes you need to get lost for a little.
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His life was a long line of denials, just waiting for him.
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He killed my soul, which should be a crime.
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It costs a lot to live.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I am stuck here on earth, and every day is a chance to be less than perfect.
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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. I would have done anything to feel real again.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Wow, someone walk over your grave?
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house, already worrying my car might get stuck and what would happen if my car got stuck. From behind the storm clouds, the late afternoon sun arrived just in time to blind me as I slammed the door shut and walked toward the house, my gut cold. As I neared the front steps, a big momma possum shot out from under the porch, hissing at me. The thing unnerved me, that pointy white face and those black eyes looking like something that should alr..
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The ones we picked? We didn't call them marks, or prey or victims. 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).
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her bona fide name is Jennifer, but people don't believe Jennifers can tell the future; Jennifers can tell you which cute shoes to buy or what farmer's market to visit, but they should keep their hands off other people's futures.)
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Really, dude? How do you get through life without breaking something? Your mom wrap you in bubble wrap?
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They want you attractive but not slutty. For instance, in my real life I wear glasses, but I don't when I'm in back because it's distracting--they think you're going to pull a Sexy Librarian act on them, and it makes them tense while they wait for the first chords of a ZZ Top song and then they don't hear it and they get embarrassed for thinking that you were going to do Sexy Librarian and then they're distracted and the whole thing takes l..
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Well, rich people need stuff to buy, and socks are probably as good as anything.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Best friends are the people who know us best.
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Gillian Flynn |
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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.
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love-quotes
messed-up
messed-up-people
sex
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She was scared. I pictured the police knocking, and here I was with a girl I'd been fucking the morning my wife went missing. I'd sought her out that day--I had never gone to her apartment since that first night, but I went right there that morning, because I'd spent hours with my heart pounding behind my ears, trying to get myself to say the words to Amy: I want a divorce. I am in love with someone else. We have to end. I can't pretend to ..
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