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Gillian Flynn

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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Relationships
Gillian Flynn
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Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Love
Gillian Flynn
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Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
From Gone Girl
Topic: Life, Love, Relationships
Gillian Flynn
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The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Relationships
Gillian Flynn
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Happiness, Love
Gillian Flynn
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Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
Gillian Flynn
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Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Funny
Gillian Flynn
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I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?
From Gone Girl
Topic: Relationships
Gillian Flynn
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...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Life, Love
Gillian Flynn
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How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.
From Sharp Objects
Topic: Death
Gillian Flynn
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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Love
Gillian Flynn
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She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Death
Gillian Flynn
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It is always consoling to think of suicide;
it's what gets one through many a bad night.
From Dark Places
Topic: Death
Gillian Flynn
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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 and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.
From The Grownup
Topic: Education
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Relationships
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Love
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
From Gone Girl
Topic: Life, Love, Relationships
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Relationships
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Happiness, Love
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Funny
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?
From Gone Girl
Topic: Relationships
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Life, Love
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.
From Sharp Objects
Topic: Death
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Love
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Death
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
It is always consoling to think of suicide;
it's what gets one through many a bad night.
From Dark Places
Topic: Death
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
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 and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.
From The Grownup
Topic: Education
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Relationships
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Love
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
From Gone Girl
Topic: Life, Love, Relationships
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Relationships
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Happiness, Love
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Funny
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?
From Gone Girl
Topic: Relationships
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Life, Love
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.
From Sharp Objects
Topic: Death
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Love
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
From Gone Girl
Topic: Death
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
It is always consoling to think of suicide;
it's what gets one through many a bad night.
From Dark Places
Topic: Death
Gillian Flynn
NOT YET RATED▼
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 and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.
From The Grownup
Topic: Education
Gillian Flynn