Quotes from book

Gone Girl

“I knew I liked her then, really liked her, this girl with an explanation for everything.”

“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”

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

“There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.”

“Hell, at this point, I can’t imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.”

“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'.”

“I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.”

“He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.”

“Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)”

“Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.”

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”

“He Giving Treed me out of existence.”

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

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

“And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.”

“So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.”

“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 was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge?”

“Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”