Gillian Schieber Flynn quotes - page 4

She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much." "Then stop playing it. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
No one I've loved has ever not had an agenda. View quote
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So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern. View quote
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I'm tired of dying. View quote
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. View quote
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I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. View quote
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There are no really new stories anymore. View quote
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I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way. View quote
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie. View quote
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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. View quote
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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. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them. View quote
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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. View quote
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He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.) View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed. View quote
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There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick. View quote
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I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. View quote
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Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past. View quote
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I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me. View quote
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To be kissed on the lips by your husband is the most decadent thing. View quote
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