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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've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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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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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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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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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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There are no really new stories anymore.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
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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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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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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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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've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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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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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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