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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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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. Now, seat belted in back, taken along for the ride, she sat silently, her pink-blotched face aimed out the window, a finger against the glass, tracing the tops of trees outside.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Patty's older sister, Diane, had pierced Patty's ears in this bathroom two decades ago. Patty heated a safety pin with a cheap lighter and Diane sliced a potato in half and stuck its cold, wet face against the back of Patty's ear. They froze her lobe with an ice cube, and Diane--hold still, hold stillllll--jabbed that pin into Patty's rubbery flesh. Why did they need the potato? For aim or something. Patty had chickened out after the first ..
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Gillian Flynn |
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I'm not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age. It is the truth: My value has decreased.
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Gillian Flynn |
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We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.
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Gillian Flynn |
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We're all bitches in the end, aren't we...
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Gillian Flynn |
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That is the correct grammar, you know: her husband and me.
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Do not antagonize the cops, I told myself. Repeat if necessary: Do not antagonize the cops.
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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
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Gillian Flynn |
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It never takes much for me to lose patience. The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue.
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Gillian Flynn |
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So, are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?" she says. "That's my, like, pattern. Run away from one, bump into the next."
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Gillian Flynn |
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It is dangerous to laugh at your spouse.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Carthage had a bigger drug epidemic than I ever knew: The cops had been here just yesterday, and already the druggies had resettled, like determined flies. As we made our way through the piles of humans, an obese woman shushed up to us on an electric scooter. Her face was pimply and wet with sweat, her teeth catlike.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I'm serious. You know how, in court, they talk about the CSI effect? Like, everyone on the jury has watched so much CSI that they believe science can prove anything?" "Yeah." "Well, I think there's an Evil Husband effect. Everyone has seen too many true-crime shows where the husband is always, always the killer, so people automatically assume the husband's the bad guy."
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Gillian Flynn |
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The day after Independence Day, the sulfur from the fireworks mingling with the ocean salt - summer.
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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."
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Gillian Flynn |
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.
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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,
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Gillian Flynn |
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Es ist ein Unterschied, ob man einen Menschen wirklich liebt oder nur die Idee von ihm.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Die Liebe weckt in dir den Wunsch, ein bessere Mensch zu werden - gut und schon. Aber vielleicht gibt dir die Liebe, die wahre Liebe, auch die Erlaubnis, einfach der Mensch zu sein, der du bist.
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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. I'd want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn't really love chili dogs that much--no one loves chili dogs that much!
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Gillian Flynn |
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serve as the Find Amy Dunne
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I really hope you like this," he says again, and flings open the door. It's a glass room, a greenhouse, I realize. Within are tulips, hundreds, of all colors. Tulips bloom in the middle of July in Desi's lake house. In their own special room for a very special girl. "I know tulips are your favorite, but the season is so short," Desi said. "So I fixed that for you. They'll bloom year-round."
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Gillian Flynn |
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She stared at me and I could tell what she was thinking: You are a gameplayer. You are a sociopath. You are a killer.
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Gillian Flynn |
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The rug says: All Are Friends Who Enter Here. 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 because--unlike Manhattanites--they all have space to store twenty-four jars of sweet pickles.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra ten pounds, the dismissive boss, the conniving sister, the straying husband.
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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.
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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.
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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. Making it look easy, the soul-mate thing. People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
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Gillian Flynn |
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The world will always need a drink
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Gillian Flynn |
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I love that I am a woman with booby traps
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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."
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Gillian Flynn |
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We are all working from the same dog-eared script. 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..
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Gillian Flynn |
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it's easy to like pregnant women--they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs.
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I can't talk right now, I'll call you back," I snapped, and hung up. I despised the women who staffed Comfort Hill: unsmiling, uncomforting. Underpaid, gruelingly underpaid, which was probably why they never smiled or comforted. I knew my anger toward them was misdirected--it absolutely infuriated me that my father lingered on while my mom was in the ground."
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Gillian Flynn |
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they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.
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Gillian Flynn |