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You know: River Valley Printworks. On the edge of town? They made those blue books you used for essays and shit in college." "Oh. I didn't know." "Now colleges use computers, whatnot, so--phwet!--bye-bye, Blue Book Boys."
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Gillian Flynn |
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You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't, they're so numb they won't feel anything?" "Mmm." "What if it's the opposite?" Amma whispered. "What if you hurt because it feels so good? Like you have a tingling, like someone left a switch on in your body. And nothing can turn the switch off except hurting? What does that mean?" --
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Gillian Flynn |
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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, volcanoes erupting. I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show. A fucking commercial. You know the awful singsong of th..
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She had an invisible friend, a giant stuffed bear she called Ben. What kind of kid has an imaginary friend that's a stuffed animal? She collected hair ribbons and arranged them in alphabetical order by color name. She was the kind of girl who exploited her cuteness with such joy you couldn't begrudge her.
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Gillian Flynn |
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He was a good man," she said, dullness with an obligatory injection of empathy. "No, he wasn't," I said, and she laughed like she clearly hadn't in a month."
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Gillian Flynn |
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stomach didn't hurt the way it did with my wife--the constant dread of returning to my own home, where I wasn't welcome.
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Gillian Flynn |
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The stumpy columns holding up the carport had been spray painted red, four in a row, reading: "Stop the Democrats, Stop the Democrats, Stop the Democrats," then, randomly, "I like Louie."
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Gillian Flynn |
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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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Gillian Flynn |
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He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them," Amma said, pulling another Blow Pop from her pocket."
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Gillian Flynn |
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I feel very sad about those girls," I said, but it sounded artificial, like a beauty contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me."
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Gillian Flynn |
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The day of Amma's arrest, the day it finally, completely unraveled, Curry and Eileen parked themselves on my couch, like concerned salt and pepper shakers.
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Gillian Flynn |
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twice-removed somethings and whom I only mildly terrorized.
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Gillian Flynn |
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She followed obligingly, and I kept waiting for those knicks at my heels.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I was boozing too much, but never to the point of drunkenness, I reasoned with myself. I needed just a nip. I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication--a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Yes, you need your evidence. I hope I have enough poison left in me.
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Gillian Flynn |
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The kind of house that is immediately familiar: a generically grand, unchallenging, new, new, new house that my wife would--and did--detest.
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Gillian Flynn |
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It's probably the reason I'm a second-rate journalist. One of them, at least.
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Gillian Flynn |
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My demons aren't remotely tackled, they're just mildly concussed.
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Gillian Flynn |
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My mother breezed in, smelling like bright blue water. She looked more comfortable in the Nash house than Mrs. Nash did. It was a natural gift for Adora, making other women feel incidental.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. I can't do it, but I can applaud it in others.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I stopped loving you." "Why?" "You stopped loving me. We're a sick, fucking toxic Mobius strip, Amy. We weren't ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves--surprise!--we were poison."
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Gillian Flynn |
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Eu gosto do inverno pois escurece cedo e isso significa que o dia acabou. Gosto de riscar os dias no calendario - 151 dias riscados e nao aconteceu nada verdadeiramente horrivel. 152 e o mundo nao desabou. 153 e nao destrui ninguem. 154 e ninguem me odeia verdadeiramente. As vezes penso que nunca me sentirei segura ate conseguir contar os meus ultimos dias numa mao. Mais tres dias para ultrapassar ate nao ter de me preocupar mais com a vid..
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Gillian Flynn |
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I just want you to be happy, Amy. How many times did he say that and I took it to mean: I just want you to be happy, Amy, because that's less work for me.
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Gillian Flynn |
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But everyone buys bulk because--unlike Manhattanites--they all have space to store twenty-four jars of sweet pickles. And--unlike Manhattanites--they all have uses for twenty-four jars of sweet pickles.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I've got to get him out of my head--he still steps on my lines from a hundred miles away.)
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Gillian Flynn |
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For so many years, my husband has lauded the emotional solidity of midwesterners: stoic, humble, without affectation! But these aren't the kinds of people who provide good memoir material.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I sometimes wonder if that is at the root of his distaste for me: He's let me see his shortcomings, and he hates me for knowing them.
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Gillian Flynn |
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The bartender was another old, gray-haired fat guy. It seemed like a joke, how much all these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just erased your features, rubbed out anything distinctive.
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Gillian Flynn |
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You're still desperate to have everyone think you're perfect. You never want to be the bad guy.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I had that overwhelming feeling I get when I'm about to give up on a plan, that big rush of air when I realize that my stroke of genius has flaws, and I don't have the brains or energy to fix them. It
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Gillian Flynn |
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I have a guy in my office--sensitive. When I got passed over for a promotion, he suggested I sue for discrimination. I wasn't discriminated against, I was a mediocre reporter. And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I don't want her to kill you. I mean, someday you burn her grilled cheese, and the next thing you know, my phone's ringing and you've taken an awful fall from the roof or some shit. Leave.
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Gillian Flynn |
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The moral to the story being: Mr. Binks was a cheating dickweasel, but, you know, marriage is compromise.
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I got secretly furious, spent ten minutes just winding myself up--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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you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You've always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to church when you were at a movie. It's some weird compulsion.
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Gillian Flynn |
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You just want an excuse to stay," she whispered. "You two, you're fucking addicted to each other. You are literally going to be a nuclear family, you do know that? You will explode."
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Gillian Flynn |
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Three girls until, at last, their baby boy. As I sipped my bourbon and cracked peanuts, I pondered the growing desperation the Nashes must have felt each time a child popped out without a penis.
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ttSf lns bljnwn. l 'jd klm@ tnsb 'kthr .. lys b`D lns, wlys ns kthyrt. lns mjnwnt
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Gillian Flynn |
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Richard wanted to take me to all the town's secret places, the nooks only the locals knew about. Places where people meet to screw or smoke dope, where teens drink, or folks go to sit by themselves and decide where their lives had unraveled. Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.
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unraveling
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What does an administrative assistant do? I wondered.
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Gillian Flynn |
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such: From the first morning after the move, when she
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Gillian Flynn |
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Me desperte en el sofa de mi hermana con una resaca terrible y el deseo de asesinar a mi esposa.
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Gillian Flynn |
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showtime! 6-0-0 the clock said--in my face, first thing
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Gillian Flynn |