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“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to f*ck off. People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don’t reach my lips.” (Gone Girl Quotes)
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“All this time I’d thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood. It was kind of romantic. Catastrophically romantic.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“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.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry – the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“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.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“I don’t understand the point of being together if you’re not the happiest.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“I often don’t say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you’d never guess from looking at me.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“If you can’t take care of me while I’m alive, you have made me dead anyway.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“If you’re about to do something, and you want to know if it’s a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“I’ve always found my wife a bit dazzling, in the purest sense of the word: to lose clear vision, especially from looking at bright light. It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn’t always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn’t.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“I’ve always thought I could commit the perfect murder. People who get caught get caught because they don’t have patience; they refuse to plan.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“Love makes you want to be a better man right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times. Unconditional love is an undisciplined love, and as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“My mother had always told her kids: if you’re about to do something, and you want to know if it’s a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don’t reach my lips.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“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.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“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. There isn’t a replacement toddling around; you’re it. It makes you desperate to be flawless, and it also makes you drunk with the power. In such ways are despots made.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“There’s a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“There’s no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“To be kissed on the lips by your husband is the most decadent thing.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
“You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
