Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

"I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good."
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"I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publishing world--throw some kibble at it, watch it dance on its little leash, oh quite cute, it definitely won't kill us in the night."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?"
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"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'."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"My brain is so busy with Nick thoughts, it’s a swarm inside my head: Nicknicknicknicknick! And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice, a day and quickly subsides. I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him. Is that wrong? I don’t even know anymore."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"It was one of the few stories we told the same way."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"in these shitty plastic days ..."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
"We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat."
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
"I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one."
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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