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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 11a2bff | in on myself, ignoring my meal, projecting glumness. 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 | ||
| 0100557 | I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication - a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 3032466 | But I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. I can't do it, but I can applaud it in others. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 6f6b739 | At one point, she probably liked the idea of a daughter. When she was a girl, I bet she daydreamed of being a mother, of coddling, of licking her child like a milk-swelled cat. She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public, was a beloved child. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| fb65b04 | Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 75e20ba | 'sh`r b'nny 'ftqd mnzln lqdym. 'ftqd l~ kl lntwt w lHwf, w ltshqqt ldqyq@ lty trkth fyh `qwd mn lzmn lzwj@ lmfqwd@, S150 | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 3d5a5c2 | You are turning me into what I never have been and never wanted to be, a nag, because you are not living up to your end of a very basic contract. Don't do that, it's not okay to do. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| caddaa1 | 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 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; whe.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e9de24f | Don't be a scared, dickless boy all your life, letting people push you around, letting people bring up the fear in you. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 645ba99 | I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 6a80c3e | 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. | phrases | Gillian Flynn | |
| 2044c3a | I paced a bit, tried to remember how to breathe right, how to calm my skin. But it blared at me. Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 06b3330 | The problem started long before that, of course. Problems always start long before you really, really see them. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 386414e | 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. It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. I would have done anything to feel.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 5d3a4ca | She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale. Because it was never just that the door was unlocked, it was that the door was unlocked, and men were inside, and they were waiting to rape and kill her. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 0ba110a | I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured. But I was out of places to write, slicing myself between my toes--bad, cry--like a junkie looking for one last vein. Vanish did it for me. I'd saved the neck, such a nice prime spot, for one final good cutting. Then I turned myself in. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a709cfe | Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy. | manipulation | Gillian Flynn | |
| 31d3731 | Frankly, I think Adora prefers us to feel like strangers. She wants all relationships in the house to run through her. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 6a073d8 | In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: I wish I'd be murdered. Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 529d18e | smart-boys fuck like they're composing a piece of math rock: This hand strums around here, and then this finger offers a nice bass rhythm.... | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 0bec7e5 | The children in the woods play wild, secret games. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e421f3e | If you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d561ff8 | I suppose it's not a compromise if only one of you considers it such, but that was what our compromises tended to look like. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 13750f1 | For over a year now, I've smelled her twat on his fingertips as he slipped into bed next to me. I've watched him ogle himself in the mirror, grooming like a horny baboon for their dates. I've listened to his lies, lies, lies - from simplistic child's fibs to elaborate Rube Goldbergian contraptions. I've tasted butterscotch on his dry-kiss lips, a cloying flavor that was never there before. I've felt the stubble on his cheeks that he knows I.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 7245469 | the Cool Girl. Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she's hosting the world's biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls a.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e7f8337 | Just like Nick, who destroyed and rejected the real me a piece at a time - you're too serious, Amy, you're too uptight, Amy, you overthink things, you analyze too much, you're no fun anymore, you make me feel useless, Amy, you make me feel bad, Amy. He took away chunks of me with blase swipes: my independence, my pride, my esteem. I gave, and he took and took. He Giving Treed me out of existence. That whore, he picked that little whore over.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| fa15c65 | A multichild household is a pit of petty jealousies, this I knew, and the Nash children were panicking at the idea of competing not just with one another, but with a dead sister. They had my sympathies. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| cdfa891 | I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me. Oh, yes, and one time she bought me lotion with vitamin E. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| af3496f | Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 5a6d266 | Another time-honored ploy: A woman is less likely to throw you out if she's offered her hospitality. If you have allergies or a cold, asking for a tissue is even better. Women love vulnerability. Most women. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 6fbaf6f | Nick and I fit together. I am a little too much, and he is a little too little. I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 776dc7f | I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 3346e2d | I stared back--cows are the few animals that really seem to see you. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 7478a68 | Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don't mind, I'm the Cool Girl. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 1bd206f | I was never really on my side in any argument. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| bda524f | 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 wishes. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 65590d0 | I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second. Inside | Gillian Flynn | ||
| bf46a5a | 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 | ||
| 0e62ee9 | 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.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b37243d | 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 both wide and deep, and I got smarter being with her. And more considerate, and more active, and more alive, and almost electr.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 1eb0b1a | Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them, | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 2e25649 | 'Sheesh, violin can be hard work, but hard work is the only way to get better!') | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4f0bc86 | Libby was a Christmas baby, which meant she never got the right amount of presents. Patty would hold one extra gift aside--and Happy Birthday to Libby!--but they all knew the truth, Libby got ripped off. Libby rarely felt less than ripped off. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d402c5e | You're so hateful. - I learned at your feet. | Gillian Flynn |