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We could have been day players in an amateur porn flick.
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four kids clambering up her, the smile was bigger, but hassled, and she was always leaning away from one of us. I picture her as constantly under siege by her children.
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Gillian Flynn |
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She was one of those middle-aged women who thought they were fooling people.
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Fact: Somewhere around 2 a.m. on January 3, 1985, a person or persons killed three members of the Day family in their farmhouse in Kinnakee, Kansas. The deceased include Michelle Day, age ten; Debby Day, age nine; and the family matriarch, Patty Day, age thirty-two. Michelle Day was strangled; Debby Day died of axe wounds, Patty Day of two shotgun wounds, axe wounds, and deep cuts from a Bowie hunting knife.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Don't women think that all men are jerky twelve-year-olds at heart?" "Hey, if the heart fits."
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Gillian Flynn |
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There was just me, left wretched in my childhood bed.
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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." "I agree," Katie said. "I didn't really become a woman until I felt Mackenzie inside me. I mean, there's all this talk these days of God versus science, but it seems like, with babies, both sides agree. The Bible says be fruitful and multiply, and science, well, when it all boils down,..
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Gillian Flynn |
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Sometimes I feel it's his personal game, that he's in some sort of undeclared contest for impenetrability.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I think if you had a dick, all sorts of bad things would happen.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I don't even want to ask," he said. "You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people."
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Gillian Flynn |
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Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.
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Gillian Flynn |
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it's been years since I even really liked someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be with anyone.
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Gillian Flynn |
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his eyes flashing like dimes.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I" can do pretty much anything. A ghost has that freedom."
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Gillian Flynn |
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This man might kill me.
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Gillian Flynn |
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By the time my sister finally died, I was grateful in a way. It seemed to me that she'd been expelled into this world not quite formed. She was not ready for its weight. People whispered comfort about Marian being called back to heaven, but my mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby.
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I don't want to panic them,' I said. 'If we don't
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neighbors, I ran errands for Mo's
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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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on the way to the beauty parlor.
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Gillian Flynn |
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occurred! Amy was shot! But then I realized
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Gillian Flynn |
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She leaned forward on the table and said, "I know we are having a tough time. I still love you so much, Nick, and I know I have a lot of things to work on. I want to be a good wife to you, and I want you to be my husband and be happy. But you need to decide what you want."
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Oh, that sounds like too
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The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.
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Gillian Flynn |
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voice. We'll get slowly lazy-drunk on good
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Gillian Flynn |
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I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity.
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Item 33: Get the fuck out of Dodge. Check, check, check.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it.
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I heard my aunt Diane boom in my head. 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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ifs-and-buts
people
quotes
right
sayings
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6-0-0. It felt different. I rarely woke at such a rounded time. I was a man of jagged risings: 8:43, 11:51, 9:26. My life was alarmless.
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I do know that framing your husband for your murder is beyond the pale of what an average would do. But it's so very necessary.
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Nonono, Nick,' Gilpin interrupted. He pulled a chair up to the table and sat on it backward. I wondered if cops actually did that. Or did some clever actor do that, and then cops began doing it because they'd seen the actors playing cops do that and it looked cool?
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stretched our legs, shook ourselves awake. The night
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Gillian Flynn |
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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 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 like a real a..
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Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. Stop
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Gillian Flynn |
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There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile, it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.
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I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication--a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. The
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Gillian Flynn |
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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.
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Gillian Flynn |
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I think that's what it is, that it's all happened at once, so I have the emotional bends.
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Gillian Flynn |
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They say you can litter-box train them, but they lie.
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Gillian Flynn |
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Day, would meet harm on top of it? Wasn't I safe by default?
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Gillian Flynn |
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I've always hovered above their stories, nodding in sympathy and thinking how foolish they are, these women, to let these things happen, how undisciplined. And now to be one of them! One of the women with the endless stories that make people nod sympathetically and think: Poor dumb bitch.
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of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong,
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Sheesh," thought Amy, "my dear fiance sure is a grouch-monster when he doesn't get his way ..." That is an actual quote. The whole book made me want to punch Amy right in her stupid, spotless vagina.)"
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