Quotes from book

Gone Girl

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

“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”

“She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.”

“She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it.”

“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I’m tired of not knowing who I’ll be with, or if I’ll be
with anyone.”

“Danish. I’d come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival.”

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

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

“Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.”

“Sometimes I feel like Nick has decided on a version of me that doesn't exist.”

“I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s because you’ve ripped a hole in your skin.”

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

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

“He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool?”

“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”

“There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die.”

“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'

He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.

But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.'

'Why?'

'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”

“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.”