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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, volcanoes erupting. I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand ..
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Gillian Flynn |
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60c865e
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Get all that bad stuff out, sweetheart. Don't stop till it's all out.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I finally understood--nearly twenty years too late.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I'm a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people--people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin--that they'd be bored as hell by me.
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Gillian Flynn |
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724cb95
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Birini gercekten sevmekle onu sevme fikrini sevmek arasinda cok buyuk fark vardir.
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türkçe
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Gillian Flynn |
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I woke up on my sister's couch with a raging hangover and an urge to kill my wife.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Lyle Wirth looked like a serial killer. Which meant he probably wasn't one. If you were chopping up hookers or eating runaways, you'd try to look normal.
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Gillian Flynn |
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She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She'd parade me into town, smiling and teasing me, tickling me as she spoke with people on the sidewalks. When we got home, she'd trail off to her room like an unfinished sentence, and I would sit outside with my face pressed against her door, and replay the day in my head, searching for clues to what I had done to displease her. I have ..
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child
childhood-memory
dysfunctional-mother
human-accessory
jealousy
loneliness
mother
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Gillian Flynn |
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65459a5
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Before we start, you have to understand one very key thing about Amy: She is fucking brilliant. Her brain is so busy, it never works on just one level. She's like this endless archaeological dig: You think you've reached the final layer, and then you bring down your pick one more time, and you break through to a whole new mine shaft beneath. With a maze of tunnels and bottomless pits.
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Gillian Flynn |
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You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I'd let the words run over my brain and out my ears, like a terrified cancer patient hearing all that coded jargon and understanding nothing, except that it was very bad news.
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Gillian Flynn |
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seemed like she could hold on to the good mood if everyone just stayed in their place. She needed the good mood, the way you need sleep after an all-nighter, the way you daydream of throwing yourself into bed. Every day she woke up and swore she wouldn't let the farm weigh her down, wouldn't let the ruination of it (three years she was behind in the loan, three years and no way out) turn her into the kind of woman she hated: mirthless, pinc..
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Gillian Flynn |
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There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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Gillian Flynn |
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They pictured themselves dashing around Manhattan, latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, adorably breaking a designer heel while hailing a cab, and falling into the arms of a charming, disarming soul mate with winningly floppy hair.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I've never understood why that's considered a compliment--that just anyone could like you.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Hay una diferencia entre querer de verdad a una persona y querer la idea que te has hecho de ella>>.
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Gillian Flynn |
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suppose it's not a compromise if only one of you considers
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Gillian Flynn |
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And then the strangest thought of all clattered drunkenly from the back of my brain to the front and blinded me: If I kill Amy, who will I be?
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Gillian Flynn |
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82bf144
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It was a town that bred complacency through cable TV and a convenience store.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I couldn't decide if I'd been mistreated. By Richard, by those boys who took my virginity, by anyone. I was never really on my side in any argument.
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Gillian Flynn |
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It is a January party, definitely, everyone still glutted and sugar-pissed from the holidays, lazy and irritated simultaneously.
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Gillian Flynn |
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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 if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I could see the cat was definitely on the steps. Still on the steps, 20 minutes after Carl's call. This was strange; Amy loved the cat. The cat was declawed, the cat was never let outside, , because the cat ... was sweet, but extremely stupid. ... Amy knew she'd never see the cat again if he ever got out. The cat would waddle straight into the Mississippi River, "deedlie-dum," and float all the way to the Gulf of Mexico into the maw of a h..
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Gillian Flynn |
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Women are crazy." Go didn't consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively."
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Gillian Flynn |
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My brother slaughtered my family when I was seven. My mom, two sisters, gone: bang bang, chop chop, choke choke.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I'd never noticed him anywhere near the pool, but he knew my swimwear cold, which was flattering and alarming at the same time.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I spent the rest of my day picturing how I'd kill Amy. It was all I could think of: finding a way to end her. Me smashing in Amy's busy, busy brain. I had to give Amy her due: I may have been dozing the past few years, but I was fucking wide awake now. I was electric again, like I had been in the early days of our marriage... Andie had screwed me over, Marybeth had turned against me, Go had lost a crucial measure of faith. Boney had trapped..
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Gillian Flynn |
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When people ask me that question that everyone asks: "What do you do?" I'd say, "I'm in customer service," which was true. To me, it's nice day's work when you make a lot of people smile. I know that sounds too earnest, but it's true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever."
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Gillian Flynn |
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Because everyone loves the Dead Girl.
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Gillian Flynn |
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The kid looked at me as if I'd just told a joke about his mother. 'I don't know, Mr Dunne, I'm sure they're getting the details right now. The point is, your wife is safe.' Hurray. Kid stole my line. I spotted Rand and Marybeth through the doorway of the room where we'd given our first press conference six weeks ago. They were leaning in to each other, as always, Rand kissing the top of Marybeth's head, Marybeth nuzzling him back, and I fe..
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Gillian Flynn |
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The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you,
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Gillian Flynn |
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My story would satisfy Desi's craving for ruined women -- I was now the most damaged of them all.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Go and I had a game inspired by our mom, who had a habit of telling such outrageously mundane, endless stories that Go was positive she had to be secretly fucking with us. For about ten years now, whenever Go and I hit a conversation lull, one of us would break in with a story about appliance repair or coupon fulfillment.
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Gillian Flynn |
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It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now.
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Gillian Flynn |
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She's a planner. She doesn't, you know, wing anything. She likes to make lists and check things off, get things done.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Imagine the righteous dismay when Ann arrived. She got slapped with some family name--didn't even get the extra e to ornament it a bit.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I have many friends who are married--not many who are happily married, but many married friends. The few happy ones are like my parents: They're baffled by my singleness. A smart, pretty, nice girl like me, a girl with so many interests and enthusiasms, a cool job, a loving family. And let's say it: money. They knit their eyebrows and pretend to think of men they can set me up with, but we all know there's no one left, no one good left, and..
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Gillian Flynn |
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He promised to take care of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse. I don't feel like Nick's wife. I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.
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Gillian Flynn |
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We are all overdressed in our little flashy frocks, our slasher heels, and we all eat small plates of food bites that are as decorative and unsubstantial as we are.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.
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Gillian Flynn |
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TV goes to a commercial for air freshener. A woman is spraying air freshener so her family will be happy.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I rolled my eyes and set my head in my hands, as if it was too much for me, and it almost was.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Eres mejor que cualquier libro de cuentos, eres mejor que nada que cualquiera pueda inventar.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite.
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Gillian Flynn |