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• He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.

  Gillian Flynn

  Kissing, Guy, Feelings

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.80, Crown

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• I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

  Gillian Flynn

  Depressing, Believe, Danish

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.117, Broadway Books

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• It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

  Gillian Flynn

  Summer, Senior, Dirty

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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• Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

  Gillian Flynn

  Giving, Perspective, Drink

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.50, Broadway Books

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• She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

  Gillian Flynn

  Bird, Gone, Grievance

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.49, Crown

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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.

  Gillian Flynn

  Kids, Secret Places, Ideas

  "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

  Gillian Flynn

  Betrayal, Years, Five Senses

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.255, Broadway Books

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• Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

  Gillian Flynn

  Fear, Thinking, Hands

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.113, Broadway Books

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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.

  Gillian Flynn

  Fear, Thinking, Doors

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.306, Crown

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• Coffee goes great with sudden death.

  Gillian Flynn

  Coffee, Sudden Death

  Gillian Flynn (2009). “Dark Places: A Novel”, p.2, Broadway Books

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• Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

  Gillian Flynn

  Should, Partners, All Time

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.438, Broadway Books

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• I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

  Gillian Flynn

  World, Bad In The World, Happens

  Gillian Flynn (2009). “Dark Places: A Novel”, p.25, Broadway Books

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• I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

  Gillian Flynn

  Despair, Degrees, Bottles

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

  Gillian Flynn

  People, Giving, Imagination

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.

  Gillian Flynn

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.

  Gillian Flynn

  Book, Character, Men

  Source: collider.com

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