Gillian Flynn citations

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“If you can't take care of me while I'm alive, you have made me dead anyway.”

“People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”

“This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.”

“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.”

“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”

“He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”

“I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.”

“Sometimes it is all too loud.”

“In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.”

“Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.”

“See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”

“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”

“I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.”

“I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.”

“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”

“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”

“Daydreams can be dangerous.”

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”

“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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?”

“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.”

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