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It was kind of romantic. Catastrophically romantic.
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The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.
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Gillian Flynn |
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We are one long frightening climax.
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Gillian Flynn |
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being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to being a shallow person.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich. We
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Daca vrei sa faci ceva si vrei sa stii daca-i o idee proasta, imagineaza-ti ca o vezi tiparita in ziar, ca sa afle toata lumea.
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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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Todo mundo tem um momento em que a vida sai dos trilhos.
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Uma crianca criada com veneno considera dor um consolo.
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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. I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud..
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That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Things may not be great, but things will be okay.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Well, there are all kinds of men, and you are the wrong kind.
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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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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. (...) I've literally seen it all, and the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my em..
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And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.
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Most beautiful, good things are done by women people scorn.
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I thought we would be the most perfect union: the happiest couple around. Not that love is a competition. But I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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That was both our making and undoing. Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and average-ness, and I hated myself for it, and ultimately, I realized, I punished her for it. I turned her into the brittle, prickly thing she became. I had pretended to be one kind of man and revealed myself to be quite another. Worse, I convinced myself our tragedy was entirely her making. I spent years working myself into the ..
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Gillian Flynn |
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I sat at the bottom of the bathtub, humiliated, trying not to cry. So
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Insomniacs are exquisitely grateful for people to recognize their weariness.
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Think about it, Nick, we know each other. Better than anyone in the world now.' It was true that I'd had this feeling too, in the past month, when I wasn't wishing Amy harm. It would come to me at strange moments - in the middle of the night, up to take a piss, or in the morning pouring a bowl of cereal - I'd detect a nib of admiration, and more than that, fondness for my wife, right in the middle of me, right in the gut. To know exactly wh..
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My parents have always worried that I'd take Amy too personally -- they always tell not to read too much into her, And yet I can't fail to notice that whenever I screw something up, Amy does it right: When I finally quit violin at age twelve, Amy was revealed as a prodigy in the next book. ("Sheesh, violin can be hard work, but handwork is the only way to get better!") When I blew off the junior championship at age sixteen to do a beach wee..
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gone-girl
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I'd fallen in love with Amy because I was the ultimate Nick with her. Loving her made me superhuman, it made me feel alive. At her easiest, she was hard, because her brain was always working, working, working--I had to exert myself just to keep pace with her. I'd spend an hour crafting a casual e-mail to her, I became a student of arcana so I could keep her interested: the Lake poets, the code duello, the French Revolution. Her mind was bot..
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Gillian Flynn |
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this town is sometimes too much, so desperate and so in denial.
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Gillian Flynn |
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In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.
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If I had a dick, I would fuck this peanut butter," deliberately spraying cracker bits toward me. "I think if you had a dick, all sorts of bad things would happen."
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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
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I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. She looks nice today, I'd think, but somehow it wouldn't occur to me to say it out loud.
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Nick grew up with a father who never, ever apologized, so when Nick feels he has screwed up, he goes on offense.
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Weird that a house so new could feel haunted, and not in the romantic Victorian-novel way, just really gruesomely, shittily ruined.
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We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned."
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I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: 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 ad mit, or else they settle on one persona because they're too lazy or stupid to pull off a switch.
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He'd come back from a night out drinking, and I'd ask him how the bar was, whatever bar, and he'd so often say: "Totally inundated bgy Lost Causes," his code for women my age. At the time, a girl barely in her thirties, I'd smirked along with him as if that would never happen to me. Now I am his Lost Cause, and he's trapped with me, and maybe that's why he's so angry."
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Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow.
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He'd come back from a night out drinking, and I'd ask him how the bar was, whatever bar, and he'd so often say: "Totally inundated by Lost Causes," his code for women my age. At the time, a girl barely in her thirties, I'd smirked along with him as if that would never happen to me. Now I am his Lost Cause, and he's trapped with me, and maybe that's why he's so angry."
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Gillian Flynn |
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We are all working from the same dog-eared script.
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Gillian Flynn |
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My brain had been burping up such inappropriate thoughts at inopportune moments. Mental gas I couldn't control.
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Gillian Flynn |
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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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slowly, slowly pulling up. Or grabbing hold of Debby's arm, vise-like, for an Indian rub and what starts as a joke gets more and more frantic, him rubbing until he draws speckles of blood, his teeth grinding. She could see him getting that same look Runner got when he was around the kids: jacked up and tense. "Dad needs to leave." "Geez, Patty, not even a hi before you toss me out? Come on, let's talk, I got a business proposition for you."..
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Gillian Flynn |
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Moje podziekowania zawsze sa dosc wymuszone. Czesto wcale nie dziekuje. Ludzie robia, co do nich nalezy, a potem oczekuja nie wiadomo jakiej wdziecznosci - jak sprzedawcy mrozonego jogurtu, ktorzy stawiaja kubki na napiwki.
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Gillian Flynn |
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To show don't tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.)
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Gillian Flynn |
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On a September morning, just after school started, I'd gotten Diane's .44 Magnum and held it, babylike, in my lap for hours. What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.
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Gillian Flynn |
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too much, because it feels so good
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Gillian Flynn |