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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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3cb6208
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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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52d0d3e
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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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b66378c
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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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ed66cf8
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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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45a0863
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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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1bac6c6
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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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c481a55
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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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6fc5340
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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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2431b14
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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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170295b
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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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714ede0
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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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4b2d499
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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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b619353
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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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a3f8236
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Sometimes the answer is at the bottom of a bottle.
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Gillian Flynn |
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72ed02b
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I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. Sometimes women do.
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Gillian Flynn |
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3509401
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Amy was absolutely beautiful. I hated her. I was afraid of her.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I've actually felt sad for myself, picturing my slim, naked, pale body, floating just beneath the current, a colony of snails attached to one bare leg, my hair trailing like seaweed until I reach the ocean and drift down down down to the bottom, my waterlogged flesh peeling off in soft streaks, me slowly disappearing into the current like a watercolor until just the bones are left.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I worry for a second that she wants to set us up: I am not interested in being set up. I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I'm too self-conscious otherwise. I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I'm obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make u for the fake charm, and then I've basically turned into Liza Minelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins..
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Gillian Flynn |
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I know it's a guy who will talk to me, he wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better. He is the kind of guy who carries himself like he gets laid a lot, a guy who likes women, a guy who would actually fuck me properly. I would like to be fucked properly! My dating life seems to rotate around three types of me: preppy Ivy Leaguers who believe they're characters in a Fitzgerald novel; slick Wall Streeters with money si..
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Gillian Flynn |
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His nametag said Jose. I tried to see if he was missing any fingers. Mexicans don't get cushy box jobs unless they're owed. That's the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Vickery, a slim fellow in his early fifties, had already sweated through his uniform. His shirt clung to his chest, and his pants puckered out in back where an ass should have been.
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Gillian Flynn |
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We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.
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Gillian Flynn |
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ece33fc
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Just got to keep on keeping on,
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Gillian Flynn |
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If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. 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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The one thing I suspected about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy - he had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.
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Gillian Flynn |
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trendy, my
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Gillian Flynn |
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I'm not one of those reporters who relishes picking through people's privacy. It's probably the reason I'm a second-rate journalist.
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Gillian Flynn |
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What are you doing here?" asked the prettiest. Her flushed face had the roundness of a girl barely in her teens and her hair was parted in ribbons, but her breasts, which she aimed proudly outward, were those of a grown woman. A lucky grown woman."
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Gillian Flynn |