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“Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite”

Source: Gone Girl

“I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.”

Source: Gone Girl

“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.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“It’s a very female thing, isn’t it, to take one boys’ night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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?”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“I’ve suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be, I find offensive.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places