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People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
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Safer to be feared than loved.
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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.
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.
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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
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A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.
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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
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It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
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