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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3eda6c2 | Es un bano de humildad, eso de convertirte en precisamente aquello que en otro tiempo despreciaste. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| af2d51a | She had an unnecessarily loud voice, a bit of a bray, like some enchanted, hot donkey. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 1ea2ccb | And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They're not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they're pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a77fd9f | This is the hardest part: waiting for stupid people to figure things out. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| cff688a | Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f2a9435 | So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 253fbda | Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction, | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 7ed2779 | I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ea1bbf8 | So you swallow your disappointment and say okay. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b92e82f | She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 0dea822 | Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 77b1863 | I've always found my wife a bit dazzling, in the purest sense of the word: to lose clear vision, especially from looking at bright light. It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn't. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| fbed842 | Imagine the jacket copr: People behaved mostly well and then they died. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 2c50f3d | Diane didn't worry, that was for less hearty women. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 156d74c | You can like an immoral character because she's interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner. | immoral | Gillian Flynn | |
| fb6bfc4 | Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 26a91be | New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publishing world--throw some kibble at it, watch it dance on its little leash, oh quite cute, it definitely won't kill us in the night. | new-york writers | Gillian Flynn | |
| 5e84b14 | And before he leans in, he brushes the sugar from my lips so he can taste me. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 803f372 | Her mind was both wide and deep, and I got smarter being with her. And more considerate, and more active, and more alive, and almost electric, because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau. Each exposure needed to be more intense than the last to achieve the same result. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 9486838 | I was a man of jagged risings | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 3400d88 | I don't think my father's issue was with my mother in particular. He just didn't like women. He thought they were stupid, inconsequential, irritating. That dumb bitch. It was his favorite phrase for any woman who annoyed him: a fellow motorist, a waitress, our grade school teachers, none of whom he ever actually met, parent-teacher conferences stinking of the female realm as they did. I still remember when Geraldine Ferraro was named the 19.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 97bb4e9 | Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they're easily offended. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 5f6eec8 | Third choice is a single woman who has that open look. You know it : The same woman you stop to ask for directions or the time of day, that's the woman we ask for money. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 67d454f | She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 36716c4 | You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 26a5e7e | So we both have things we want to work on. For me, it'd be my perfectionism, my occasional (wishful thinking?) self-righteousness. For you? I know you worry that you're sometimes too distant, too removed, unable to be tender or nurturing. Well, I want to tell you--here in your father's house--that isn't true. You are not your father. You need to know that you are a good man, you are a sweet man, you are kind. I've punished you for not being.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 64e4afc | Clean and bleed. Bleed and clean. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 5b2794e | 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 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 .. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 97c8e10 | Go sat quietly, the orange of the streetlight creating a rock-star halo around her profile. "This is going to be a real test for you, Nick," she murmured, not looking at me. "You've always had trouble with the truth--you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You've always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to church when you were at a movi.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| cd71da5 | But she did invite me to her house, and women like that don't invite over women like me unless they want something. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d4860c9 | no entiendo por que necesito demostrarte mi amor recordando exactamente las mismas cosas que tu, exactamente de la misma manera que las recuerdas tu. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e0248d5 | DNA to me was some sort of magical element, some glowing goo that was always getting people out of prison | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 162c8fb | The ones who are not soul-mated - the ones who have settled - are even more dismissive of my singleness: It's not that hard to find someone to marry, they say. No relationship is perfect, they say - they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation - yes, honey, okay, honey - is the same as concord. He's doing what you tell him to do because he doesn't ca.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 872e28a | I had no sympathy for drama queens. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 8192fe5 | Amy will be fine. Amy ..." Here was where I should have said, "Amy loves Mom." But I couldn't tell Go that Amy loved our mother, because after all that time, Amy still barely knew our mother. Their few meetings had left them both baffled. Amy would dissect the conversations for days after--"And what did she mean by ..."--as if my mother were some ancient peasant tribeswoman arriving from the tundra with an armful of raw yak meat and some bu.. | in-laws mother-in-law | Gillian Flynn | |
| ab851e9 | Era la encarnacion del peor temor de cualquier escritor: un cliche | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b1829a3 | It makes me think that everyone is very wrong, that love should have many conditions. Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times. Unconditional love is an undisciplined love, and as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 182869e | Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou, I chanted, | Gillian Flynn | ||
| cb0de70 | Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kids grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 0e7e28b | That was another of my mom's words: glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 27624b4 | Normally, Richard was the kind of guy I disliked, someone born and raised plush: looks, charm, smarts, probably money. These men were never very interesting to me; they had no edges, and they were usually cowards. They instinctively fled any situation that might cause them embarrassment or awkwardness. But Richard didn't bore me. Maybe because his grin was a little crooked. Or because he made his living dealing in ugly things. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e3fe3dd | She was wearing a black pantsuit with a pale pink turtleneck underneath, a painfully aspirational look for a stripper. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 79dd222 | I was busy thinking of all the people that had been harmed: intentionally, accidentally, deservedly, unfairly, slightly, completely. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| cf77757 | It was one of the few stories we told the same way. | gillian-flynn gone-girl memory nick-and-amy stories | Gillian Flynn |