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There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die. There isn't a replacement toddling around; you're it. It makes you desperate to be flawless, and it also makes you drunk with the power. In such ways are despots made.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Friends see most of each other's flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit. If she punished a friend of a few months by throwing herself down a flight of stairs, what would she do to a man who was dumb enough to marry her?
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Gillian Flynn |
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Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Good Lord, I hated her, but you had to admire the bitch.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I'd tried all my life to be a decent guy, a man who loved and respected women, a guy without hang-ups. And here I was, thinking nasty thoughts about my twin, about my mother-in-law, about my mistress. I was imagining bashing in my wife's skull.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I remained mostly silent. I was thinking my own questions, the same questions I'd thought for years, the ominous refrain of our marriage: What are you thinking, Amy? 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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You were the best man you've ever been with me. And you know it. The only time in your life you've ever liked yourself was pretending to be someone I might like. Without me? You're just your dad.
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Gillian Flynn |
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As a man, I had been my most impressive when I loved her - and I was my next best self when I hated her.
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Gillian Flynn |
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992f00f
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The fact is, my wife is a murderess who is sometimes really fun.
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Gillian Flynn |
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60b3f3b
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I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge? I am supposed to love Nick despite all his shortcomings. And Nick is supposed to love me despite my quirks. But clearly, neither of us does. It makes me think that everyone is very wrong, that love sh..
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Gillian Flynn |
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He is learning to love me unconditionally, under all my conditions.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Amma and I were sick just like Marian. It had to be made that obvious to me before I finally understood--nearly twenty years too late.
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Gillian Flynn |
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His name is Nick. I love it. It makes him seem nice, and regular, which he is. When he tells me his name, I say, "Now, that's a real name." He brightens and reels off some line: "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!" He"
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Gillian Flynn |
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Okay, so what's your favorite color, your favorite ice cream flavor, and your favorite season? "Blue, coffee, and winter." "Winter. No one likes winter." "It gets dark early, I like that." "Why?" Because that means the day has ended. I like checking days off a calendar--"
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Gillian Flynn |
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Why bother? It's impossible to compete with the dead.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Uma cidade tao sufocante e pequena que todos os dias voce esbarrava em pessoas que odiava. Pessoas que sabiam coisas sobre voce. E o tipo de lugar que deixa marcas.
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Gillian Flynn |
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There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn't ever complain. (How do you know you're not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: "I like strong women." If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because "I like strong women" is code for "I hate strong women."
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Gillian Flynn |
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It was commonly known that Annabelle absolutely hated her husband's last name--she even crumpled up her nose when she said it. It never occurred to her that she didn't have to take it.
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Gillian Flynn |
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It was true, Ben at age two was an astonishing thing. He'd demand love outright, grab at a breast or an arm, but as soon as he had enough affection, and that came quickly, he'd go completely limp, play dead until you let him go.
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Gillian Flynn |
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That was the worst word Diane could have said. As soon as she said it, Patty knew she'd been dreading just exactly that. That wedge of possibility--misunderstanding--that could turn this into something. A pat on the head might be a caress of the back might be a kiss on the lips might be the roof caving in.
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Gillian Flynn |
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We were the two unlikeliest people to charm information out of someone. Stunted human beings who got awkward every time we tried to express ourselves.
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Gillian Flynn |
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The Day women were the definition of mob mentality. And here they were on a farm with plenty of pitchforks.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Amy could spend an entire evening out fretting that she lef tthe stove on, even though we didn't cook that day. Or was the door locked? Was I sure? 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. I felt a layer of sweat shimmer to the surface of my skin, because, finally, my wife's fears..
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Gillian Flynn |
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You know what I was about to say? I was about to say I don't know what to believe anymore. And then I thought, that's someone else's line. That's a line from a movie, not something I should be saying, and I wonder for a second, am I in a movie? Can I stop being in this movie? Then I know I can't. But for a second, you think, I'll say something different, and this will all change. But it won't, will it?
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Gillian Flynn |
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waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.
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Gillian Flynn |
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We were the first human beings who would never see anythign for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed.
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Gillian Flynn |
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They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted
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Gillian Flynn |
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see a 3 and an 8. (He said.) And then work
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Gillian Flynn |
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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. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they're fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this g..
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Gillian Flynn |
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Uyku tipki bir kedi gibi. Sadece onu gormezden geldiginde yanina yaklasiyor.
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türkçe
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Gillian Flynn |
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noblesse oblige
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Gillian Flynn |
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I don't mean this to sound cruel," Tish began, "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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Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences..
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Gillian Flynn |
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My nose flared involuntarily and my eyes started watering. You ever been near an animal-processing plant, you know what I mean. The smell isn't like water or air; it's a solid. Like you should be able to cut a hole in the stink to get some relief. You can't.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Estoy aqui.>> No suelo sentir que lo este; me siento como si una rafaga calida de viento fuese a soplar en mi direccion y a hacerme desaparecer para siempre, sin dejar siquiera un cachito de una.
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Gillian Flynn |
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them since they were built. The old people sit, gray and pudding-like,
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Gillian Flynn |
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Los cerdos son criaturas extremadamente inteligentes y sociables, y esa intimidad forzada de cadena de montaje hace que a las cerdas madres les entren ganas de morirse. Cosa que hacen, en cuanto se les seca la leche. La sola idea de esa practica me parece repulsiva, pero el hecho de verla con tus propios ojos te afecta muy directamente, te hace menos humano.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Los cerdos son criaturas extremadamente inteligentes y sociables, y esa intimidad forzada de cadena de montaje hace que a las cerdas madres les entren ganas de morirse. Cosa que hacen, en cuanto se les seca la leche. La sola idea de esa practica me parece repulsiva, pero el hecho de verla con tus propios ojos te afecta muy directamente, te hace menos humano. Como ser testigo de una violacion y no decir nada.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I had a swelling urge to discuss football and fart.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Love makes you want to be a better man--right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. Not makes me feel, just makes me.
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Gillian Flynn |
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E khreokopia tairiaze teleia me ton psukhismo mou. Epi seira eton, bariomoun. Okhi omos san kanena klapsiariko anesukho paidi (okhi oti emoun uperano kati tetoiou), apenantias, aisthanomoun mia pekhte, apopniktike katathlipse. Mou phainotan oti den uperkhe tipota kainourgio gia na anakaluphthei. E koinonia mas etan apotelesma anaparagoges se katastrophiko bathmo. Emastan oi protoi anthropoi pou den tha eblepan tipota gia prote phora. Ateniz..
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Gillian Flynn |
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Todo el mundo tiene su propia version de un recuerdo
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Gillian Flynn |
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What should I do?" Patty put her head between her knees. She felt laughter in her stomach, it was all so ludicrous. I wonder if I'm having a breakdown, she thought. Maybe I could have a breakdown and then I won't have to talk to anyone. A safe white room, and Patty being ushered like a child from breakfast to lunch to dinner, maneuvered by people with gentle whispers, Patty shuffling like someone who's dying."
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Gillian Flynn |