Gillian Schieber Flynn quotes - page 5

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? (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.
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This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.
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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.
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He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.
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Sometimes it is all too loud.
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In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.
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Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.
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See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.
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Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.
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Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.
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Daydreams can be dangerous.
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I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second.
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I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.
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It's a very female thing, isn't it, to take one boys' night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?
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Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.
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Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.
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He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am.
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And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be, I find offensive. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.
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Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.
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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.
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I've had the blues for twenty-four years.
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