Gillian Schieber Flynn quotes - page 6

Sometimes I feel like Nick has decided on a version of me that doesn't exist. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog. View quote
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I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ. View quote
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Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax. View quote
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He Giving Treed me out of existence. View quote
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The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history. View quote
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but fact is, it's been years since I even really liked someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be with anyone. View quote
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She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch. View quote
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You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. View quote
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I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phraseSometimes women do. View quote
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Do you understand this is serious?" "I understand you think it's serious. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time. View quote
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I knew I liked her then, really liked her, this girl with an explanation for everything. View quote
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I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me. View quote
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Marriage is compromise and hard work, and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter. View quote
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People are dumb. I'll never get over how dumb people are. View quote
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It sounded artificial, like a beauty pageant contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me. View quote
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One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things. View quote
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I loved being scared as a kid. I loved the darker side of humanity. That was in my brain, even from a very early age. I was always thinking, "What could be the scariest outcome of this situation?”. View quote
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...I also wanted to make sure no one tried to make her "save the cat.”. View quote
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