Gillianflynn Quotes

We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.

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love

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.

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introvert

It's humbling, to become the very thing you once

mocKeD.

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irony

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.

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life

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial – you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

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women

I’d fallen in love with her because I was the ultimate me with her. Loving her made me superhuman, it made me feel alive. At her easiest, she was hard, because her brain was always working, working, working.

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      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.
    

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There's something disturbing about recalling
a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

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    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.
  

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