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I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making faces, and I would try to do that too, but I wouldn't understand why.
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Gillian Flynn |
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14464ce
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She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale.
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Gillian Flynn |
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cc48c9d
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Para Amy, o amor era como drogas, alcool e pornografia: nao havia limite. Cada exposicao precisava ser mais intensa que a ultima para alcancar o mesmo resultado.
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Gillian Flynn |
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But I do like a certain standard of living--I think it's fair to say the garbage shouldn't literally overflow, and the plates shouldn't sit in the sink for a week with smears of bean burrito dried on them. That's just being a good grown-up roommate. And Nick's not doing anything anymore, so I have to nag, and it pisses me off:
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Gillian Flynn |
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f063ac3
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My penis lay pathetically along my left thigh, like some small animal washed ashore.
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Gillian Flynn |
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3c42589
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I am penniless and on the run. How fucking noir.
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Gillian Flynn |
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5232bf3
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With the Internet, Facebook, YouTube, there's no such thing as an unbiased jury anymore. No clean slate.
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Gillian Flynn |
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8efaf71
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My life has begun to feel like an epilogue.
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Gillian Flynn |
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d78b337
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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dbd626c
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It took this awful situation for us to realize it. Nick and I fit together. I am a little too much, and he is a little too little. I am a thorn bush, 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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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7554222
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Jag ater chokladkakor och flyter i timmar omkring i poolen i solskenet, sa att kloret i vattnet gor mitt skinn gummiartat som pa en sal.
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Gillian Flynn |
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e30ea5f
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Jackie, shut up," Annabelle said, and threw a roll, hard, at Jackie's face. It bounced off her nose and thumped onto the table."
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Gillian Flynn |
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e941bf7
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I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show.
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Gillian Flynn |
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41d051d
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Yeah, right. Something Wicked This Way Comes,' Greta says. '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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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317fb22
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It was a compliment to Nick--C was the correct answer--but he just gave a sour smile when I showed
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Gillian Flynn |
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5213ae3
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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; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It
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Gillian Flynn |
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3bb06d7
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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
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Gillian Flynn |
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I should add, in Amy's defense, that she'd asked me twice if I wanted to talk, if I was sure I wanted to do this. I sometimes leave out details like that. It's more convenient for me. In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation. I was sometimes as guilty of playing the figure-me-out game as Amy was. I've left that bit of information out, too.
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Gillian Flynn |
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84c2d7f
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite. Dorothy
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Gillian Flynn |
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4a0b6fb
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O gunlerde yayincilik dunyasi icin internet, bir kosede tutulan egzotik bir evcil hayvandan ibaretti.
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türkçe
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Gillian Flynn |
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374819a
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We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how.
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parenting
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Gillian Flynn |
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3056519
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Evlilik fedakarlik ve caba gerektirir, sonrasinda daha cok caba ve fedakarlik gerektirir. Sonra daha cok caba. Buyurun, buyurun yalniz iceri girerken butun umutlarinizi kapida birakin.
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türkçe
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Gillian Flynn |
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c603da9
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like rules that make sense, not rules without logic),
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Gillian Flynn |
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95c4bc5
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This is the hardest part: waiting for stupid people to figure things out. I
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Gillian Flynn |
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f4841bb
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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?
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Gillian Flynn |
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de1a06c
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If you're always early, you're never late.
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Gillian Flynn |
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e546260
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midwesterners love two liters of soda, always two liters, and you pour them into big red plastic Solo cups, always).
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Gillian Flynn |
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because at this point of our marriage, I was so used to being angry with her, it felt almost enjoyable, like gnawing on a cuticle: You know you should stop, that it doesn't really feel as good as you think, but you can't quit grinding away.
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Gillian Flynn |
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6812536
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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
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Gillian Flynn |
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6c3dc3c
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I created a manuscript, and she created a life. I
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Gillian Flynn |
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5ab0a1a
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It feels nice, after my recent series of nervous, respectful post-feminist men, to be a territory.
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Gillian Flynn |
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842765c
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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. I
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Gillian Flynn |
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b4a6917
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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? So
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Gillian Flynn |
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787ff98
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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.*
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Gillian Flynn |
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cdb030d
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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Gillian Flynn |
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c00f3ee
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It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoe..
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Gillian Flynn |
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94bbb65
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The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities.
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Gillian Flynn |
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e3b4b88
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But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move.
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Gillian Flynn |
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6fa6a54
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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.
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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.)
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Gillian Flynn |
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e711c84
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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"
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Gillian Flynn |
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He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room. Throwing things near her but not exactly at her. I'm sure he told himself: I never hit her. I'm sure because of this technicality he ne..
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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."
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |