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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 189d537 | The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you, | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d7ddf20 | My story would satisfy Desi's craving for ruined women -- I was now the most damaged of them all. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b5b5972 | 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. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 1e39e84 | It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| af7304e | She's a planner. She doesn't, you know, wing anything. She likes to make lists and check things off, get things done. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 512cd8d | 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. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 843aabb | 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.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 92f02e3 | 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. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 46e624c | 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. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| c514d23 | 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. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 76db924 | TV goes to a commercial for air freshener. A woman is spraying air freshener so her family will be happy. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 19ee6ab | I rolled my eyes and set my head in my hands, as if it was too much for me, and it almost was. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b74edd4 | Eres mejor que cualquier libro de cuentos, eres mejor que nada que cualquiera pueda inventar. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f00b7ce | Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 709c976 | If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book. | reading respecting-others | Gillian Flynn | |
| 8d9a36d | Frank Curry thinks I'm a soft touch. Might be because I'm a woman. Might be because I'm a soft touch. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 963af41 | It sounded artificial, like a beauty contestant pledging world peace. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 00191d2 | And people loved me. I was no longer the pity case (with, how weird, the dead sister). I was the pretty girl (with, how sad, the dead sister). And so I was popular. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ce20d4f | People behaved mostly well and then they died. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 15ff8e7 | He killed my soul, which should be a crime. Actually, it is a crime. According to me, at least. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d2b13c4 | I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 0430e23 | My mother said she was the most popular girl in school, and I believed it. Jackie said she was the meanest, and I believed that, too. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 972a9c0 | That's what I did, though--I had angry, defensive conversations in my head, got mad at things that hadn't even happened yet. Yet. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 334a199 | They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f891a62 | As we move forward with the investigation, we can only hope that Amy comes back to us. Her story must continue. The world is ready for a new chapter. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| bb2cd22 | So there it came, out of nowhere, as Rand begged for his daughter's return: a killer smile. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 23c2575 | People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. 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. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 50381a0 | I thought being home might do you good, but ... I forget sometimes parents aren't always ... good for their kids. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b87f82a | Adora changed her color scheme from peach to yellow. She promised me she'd take me to the fabric store so I can make new coverings to match. This dollhouse is my fancy." She almost made it sound natural, . The words floated out of her mouth sweet and round like butterscotch, murmured with just a tilt of her head, but the phrase was definitely my mother's. Her little doll, learning to speak just like Adora. "Looks like you do a very good j.. | families insecurity parental-approval scary-houses | Gillian Flynn | |
| 2e1dfd3 | That was pure, dumb Cool Girl bullshit. What a cunt. Again, I don't get it: If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose. You don't get what you want. It's pretty clear. Sure, he may be happy, he may say you're the coolest girl ever, but he's saying it because he got his way. He's calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That's what men do: They try to make it sound like you are the Cool Girl so you will bow to their .. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e13f875 | We called them Tonys, because my dad was named Tony and he could never say no to anyone (although I assume he said no to my mom at least once, when she asked him to stay). | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e683a76 | I could feel the night hanging on me like a soft, damp bedgown | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a81f3e8 | Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? | gone-girl marriage messed-up sad-but-true thriller | Gillian Flynn | |
| 7bb2175 | She called me Nerdy because I wore glasses and read books and ate yogurt on my lunch break. I'm not really a nerd: I only aspire to be one. Because of the high-school-dropout thing, 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 .. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 67a4237 | 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. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 71b5efd | Well, a little girl is more likely to trust a person who reminds her of her momma, right?" Depends on what her momma's like, I thought." | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 3d91fc5 | People are strange | mystery-thriller | Gillian Flynn | |
| 78c9257 | She tried to speak; her mouth opened, once, twice, silent, a mermaid washed ashore. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 9e502bb | Amy's story could have gone a million other ways, but she met me, and bad things happened. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 9b7cb02 | You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't, they're so numb they won't feel anything? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| c8ef0cf | But one day I will wear him down, I will catch him off guard, and he will lose the energy for the nightly battle, and he will get in bed with me. In the middle of the night, I'll turn to face him and press myself against him. I'll hold myself to him like a climbing, coiling vine until I have invaded every part of him and made him mine. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 2e7b99a | Every tragedy that happens in the world happens to my mother, and this more than anything about her turns my stomach. She worries over people she's never met who have a spell of bad chance. She cries over news from across the globe. It's all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b129fde | It did not occur to me to call a doctor, because I knew none, and although it did occur to me to call the desk and ask that the air conditioner be turned off, I never called, because I did not know how much to tip whoever might come--was anyone ever so young? | Joan Didion | ||
| a5edbfa | Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another. | Joan Didion |