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La gente hace lo que se supone que debe hacer y despues espera a que los colmes con tu aprecio; son como los empleados de las tiendas de yogur helado que dejan vasos sobre la barra para que eches la propina.
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Gillian Flynn |
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El amor deberia exigir que ambas partes de n lo mejor de si mismas en todo momento. El amor incondicional es un amor indisciplinado y, como ya hemos visto todos, el amor indisciplinado solo conduce al desastre.
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Gillian Flynn |
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suppose 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?
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Gillian Flynn |
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I must do better at adoring him like I used to. Nick responds to adoration. I just wish it felt more equal. My brain is so busy with Nick thoughts, it's a swarm inside my head: Nicknicknicknicknick! 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. Is that wrong? I don't even know anymore.
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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,"
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Gillian Flynn |
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Tears ran down my mother's cheeks and dripped loudly onto the leather purse she held in her lap. The woman next to her patted her hand. I slipped my notepad from my jacket pocket and began scribbling notes to one side until my mother slapped her hand on mine and hissed, "You are being disrespectful and embarrassing. Stop or I will make you leave." I quit writing but kept the pad out, feeling stabbingly defiant. But still blushing."
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Gillian Flynn |
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I know I am going to be angry - that quick inhale, the lips going tight, the shoulders up, the I so don't want to be mad but I'm going to be feeling.
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Gillian Flynn |
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The women who came in groups, they were frivolous, fancy, boozy, ready to have fun. The ones who came alone, though, they wanted to believe. They were desperate, and they didn't have good enough insurance for a therapist. Or they didn't know they were desperate enough to need a therapist. It was hard to feel sorry for them. I tried to because you don't want your mystic, the keeper of your future, to roll her eyes at you. But I mean, come on..
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Gillian Flynn |
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50cacee
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I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years.
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Gillian Flynn |
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You two worshipful, adoring assholes created that thing down the hall and set her loose on the world.
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Gillian Flynn |
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or shoulders
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Gillian Flynn |
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I was hoping Betsy Nash would disappear. Literally. She was so insubstantial, I could imagine her slowly evaporating, leaving only a sticky spot on the edge of the sofa. But she lingered, eyes darting between me and her husband before we even began speaking. Like she was winding up for the conversation. The children, too, hovered about, little blonde ghosts trapped in a limbo between indolence and stupidity. The pretty girl might do all rig..
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Gillian Flynn |
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Before Amy and I got serious, got engaged, got married, I would get glimpses of Go's thoughts in a sentence here or there. It's funny, I can't quite get a bead on her, like who she really is. And: You just seem kind of not yourself with her. And: There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. And finally: The important thing is she makes you really happy. Back
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Gillian Flynn |
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I prepared to get out of bed, tossing the covers aside, the sheets dank-smelling, gray from my body. I wondered how long it had been since I'd changed them. And then I wondered how often you were supposed to change them. These were the kinds of things you didn't learn. I changed bedclothes after sex, now, finally, and that I only learned a few years ago from a movie on TV: Glenn Close, some thriller, and she'd just had sex and is changing t..
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life-lessons
neglect
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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!"
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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.
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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And every single person in this case lies, is lying, did lie.
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Gillian Flynn |
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De la misma manera que algunas mujeres cambian de aspecto regularmente, yo cambio de personalidad. ?Que personaje me sienta bien, cual es el mas deseado, cual se pone de moda? Creo que la mayor parte de las personas hace lo mismo, simplemente no lo reconocen o en su defecto se afianzan en un solo personaje porque son demasiado perezosas o estupidas para hacer el cambio.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Su cerebro es tan complejo que nunca trabaja unicamente a un nivel. Es como un yacimiento arqueologico interminable: cuando crees que has alcanzado la ultima capa y dejas caer el pico por ultima vez, descubres que hay otra mina entera debajo. Con un laberinto de tuneles y pozas sin fondo.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Los ironicos siempre se deshacen cuando se ven confrontados con la mas absoluta sinceridad, es su kriptonita.
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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. You never understood that."
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Gillian Flynn |
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Pienso en lo estupida que soy por haber dejado entrar a estos dos individuos. Por haber asumido que podria controlarles, cuando son criaturas feroces, acostumbradas a encontrar un punto de apoyo sobre el que hacer palanca para explotar las debilidades ajenas, siempre necesitados de mas, mientras que yo soy nueva en esto. En lo de necesitar.
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Gillian Flynn |
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83f30ba
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Len never said hello as a greeting; he said something like a yodel, He-a-lo!
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Gillian Flynn |
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I realized I was humming "Uncle John's Band" to myself for no good reason."
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Gillian Flynn |
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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.
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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
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Gillian Flynn |
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Everyone is nice. They are literally as nice as they can be.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Betsy's arm shot out, and my cheek suddenly stung. "What the hell?" I said, trying to figure out what had happened. A cherry-red jellybean was in my lap. I held it up. "Every time you tense up, every time you turn that handsome face into an undertaker's mask, I am going to hit you with a jellybean," Betsy explained, as if the whole thing were quite reasonable."
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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."
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Gillian Flynn |
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The little brown house was my father's house, which was actually blue, but Amy was making another inside joke. 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.
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romance
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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It's not stand by your man anymore, it's divorce the fucker.
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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E pensei: o amor faz voce querer ser um homem melhor - certo, certo. Mas talvez amor, amor de verdade, tambem lhe de a permissao para ser apenas o homem que e.
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love
nick-dunne
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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."
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libby-day
prison
prisoner
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Gillian Flynn |
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I worry I am coming perilously close to violating both of those promises. But still. It is our third wedding anniversary and I am alone in our apartment, my face all mask-tight from tears because, well, because: Just this afternoon, I get a voice mail from Nick, and I already know it's going to be bad, I know
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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It had turned me into a knee-jerk suckup to authority. Mom, Dad, teachers: Whatever makes your job easier, sir or madam. I craved a constant stream of approval. 'You'd literally lie, cheat, and steal - hell, kill - to convince people you are a good guy,' Go once said.
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gone-girl
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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.
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Sometimes the answer is at the bottom of a bottle.
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Gillian Flynn |