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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
Gillian Flynn
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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 feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
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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 feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.
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Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
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It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
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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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Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
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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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Safer to be feared than loved.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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