“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

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American author and critic 1971

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