Gillian Flynn Quotes
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I had no sympathy for drama queens.
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There are no really new stories anymore.
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A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.
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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
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I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.
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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.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
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Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.
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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.
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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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?
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The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?
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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.
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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
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Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.
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Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.
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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.
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