Wenn man meine Seele zeichnen könnte, wäre es irgendein wildes Gekritzel mit deutlich sichtbaren Reißzähnen.


Gillian Flynn

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Wäre ich ein Zimmermann, würde ich dir ein Fenster zu meiner Seele zimmern.
Wenn du hineinsch...
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Man kann jemanden nur dann als verrückt bezeichnen, wenn es jemand anderen gibt, der normal ist. Wi...
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ASTRID LINDGREN
Es gibt Reichtümer, an denen man zugrunde geht, wenn man sie nicht mit anderen teilen kann.
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Man muss die Originalität des eigenen Lebens infrage stellen wenn es sich mit den Zeilen eines Rock...
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Es ist übrigens ganz leicht, alles kaputt zu machen, wenn man sich mit jemandem wohl fühlt. Man br...
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER
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Ebenso hilft es der Seele nichts, wenn der Leib heilige Kleider anlegt, wie's die Priester und Geist...
MARTIN LUTHER
Einerseits überschätzen wir den Andern, andererseits unterschätzen wir ihn und wir überschätzen...
THOMAS BERNHARD
Verwechsle niemals Zufall mit Absicht“, sagte er. „Oder meine Moral mit Schwäche.
SIMONA DOBRESCU
„Verwechsle niemals Zufall mit Absicht“, sagte er. „Oder meine Moral mit Schwäche.
SIMONA DOBRESCU
Mit Worten über Worte sprechen zu wollen, das ist, als würde man versuchen, mit einem Bleistift eb...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Wahnsinn ist, wenn man nicht mehr die Nähte sehen kann, mit denen die Welt zusammengenäht ist.
RICHARD BACHMAN
I put on a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown up, big-girl clothes never qui...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That’s how I’d stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristin...
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A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente...
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It had turned me into a knee-jerk suckup to authority. Mom, Dad, teachers: Whatever makes your job e...
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TARRYN FISHER
Wenn man sich für jemanden verantwortlich fühlt, kann es sein, daß man ihn schließlich haßt.
RICHARD BACHMAN
(…) das mit dem Abholen macht keinen Sinn, wenn du nicht mit dem Auto kommst.
JULIA KATHRIN KNOLL
Drei Fragen die du mit Ja beantworten musst:

Bringt er dir in jeder Lebenslage Respekt un...
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Im frühen Mittelalter, im Anschluss an die Kreuzzüge, entwickelte sich dann die deutsche Alraunsag...
HANNS HEINZ EWERS
Wenn die Menschen wüssten, was der Tod ist, dann hätten sie keine Angst mehr vor ihm. Und wenn sie...
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Zwischen den Zeilen liest man nur, wenn man weiß, wie es ist, umgeben von Worten und Worten die eig...
LILLY LINDNER
Natürlich dauerte es eine Weile, bis alles kompliziert genug wurde, um Gaswolken, Galaxien, Planete...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but t...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Es ist nicht wichtig, was passiert, wenn Sie da sind, sondern was geschieht, wenn Sie nicht da sind.
CARSTEN K. RATH
Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist...
FRANZ KAFKA
Eine Eigenschaft war etwas, auf das man mit dem Finger zeigen konnte, wenn man sich selber meinte. [...
JULI ZEH
Go didn't like grilled cheese; she was scooping peanut butter out of the jar onto saltines. When a c...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Bei den Big Five geht es um die fünf Dinge, die man in seinem Leben tun, sehen oder erleben will, b...
JOHN STRELECKY
Wenn du es zulässt, tendiert deine Vergangenheit dazu, dir die Zukunft zu diktieren.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Nein, man spürt nichts. Es fehlt einem eben nur etwas. Und jeden Tag fehlt einem mehr, wenn man dav...
MICHAEL ENDE
Denn wenn man an alle Völker der Erde die Aufforderung ergehen liesse, sich unter all den verschied...
HERODOTUS
When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love...
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My parents have always worried that I’d take Amy too personally — they always tell not to read t...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Es sind tausend Tropfen
in einer Welt
nur für uns gemacht

Tausend Tropfen
NINA HRUSA
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Viele Menschen sind gut genug erzogen, um nicht mit vollem Mund zu sprechen, aber sie haben keine Be...
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Ich habe gelernt, dass es auch Gutes auf der Welt gibt, wenn man genau hinschaut und danach sucht. I...
JENNIFER NIVEN
Wenn du mich küsst, Gwendolyn Shepherd, dann ist das so, als würde ich den Kontakt zum Boden verli...
KERSTIN GIER
Wenn ich nur ein Telephon habe, der Wald 
wird sich finden! Ohne Telephon kann man nur 
...
KARL KRAUS
Ich bin gern erlöst von meinem Spiegelbild, von der Frage, wie ich aussehe. Auch ohne Spiegel weiß...
PAULINE DEBOK
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs. [Ger., Im engen Krei...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Am Anfang merkt man noch nicht viel davon. Man hat eines Tages keine Lust mehr irgendetwas zu tun. N...
MICHAEL ENDE
Siehst Du, Momo", sagte er, "es ist so: Manchmal hat man eine sehr lange Straße vor sich. Man denkt...
MICHAEL ENDE
Wenn wir uns ständig Sorgen darüber machen, was als nächstes kommt, verpassen wir die Chance auf ...
JOHN STRELECKY
Wenn wir uns ständig darüber sorgen machen was als nächstes kommt , verpassen wir die Chance , au...
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Nachdem sie sich ihr Sandwich aus dem Automaten geholt und es ausgepackt hatte, schleppte Trace sie ...
VANESSA SANGUE
Der Mensch ist taub und blind gegen die Welt, aber er spürt es wie Rheuma, wenn ihn etwas am Schick...
JULI ZEH
Nun, wenn du siehst, wie etwas aus dem Meer kriecht und zu atmen versucht… Sag ihm, es sei die Mü...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It was one of the few stories we told the same way.
GILLIAN FLYNN
Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der...
J.M. COETZEE
Das Meer war ein lebendiges Wesen, so unberechenbar wie ein großer Theaterschauspieler: es konnte r...
CECELIA AHERN
Während ich mir mit Fernsehen und Radio die Illusion von Gesellschaft ins Verlies holte, konnte ich...
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[...] dass es völlig hirnrissig ist, etwas für andere Menschen zu tun, weil man selbst ein Mensch ...
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Wenn man schon eines grässlichen Todes sterben muss, sollte man wenigstens einen stilvollen Abgang ...
JONATHAN STROUD
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Das verschlug mir für einen Moment die Sprache, ich hatte nicht gedacht, dass es so schlim...
MARTINA RIEMER
Wer es zulässt, dass man ihn beleidigt, verdient es.
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Ich möchte wissen", sagte er vor sich hin, "was eigentlich in einem Buch los ist, solang es zu ist....
MICHAEL ENDE
Ein Greenhorn schleppt der Reinlichkeit wegen einen Waschschwamm von der Größe eines Riesenkürbis...
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. Aber sie tatens. ER überlebte länger, aber beide hielten sich lange. Zwei der neuen SF Serien we...
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Es hätte alles so schön sein können. Ein bisschen billige Psychotherapie, angereichert mit mittel...
ADAM NEVILL
Meine kleinkarierte Angst vor persönlicher Zurückweisung erlaubt so vielem wahren Bösen zu existi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Ich würde niemandem raten die Luft anzuhalten ... Abgesehen von der Filmfrage, denke...
RENE AUBERJONOIS
I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas tha...
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I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got ...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Den Blick in die Welt kann man mit einer Zeitung versperren.
STANISłAW JERZY LEC
I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villai...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.
GILLIAN FLYNN
The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich. We
GILLIAN FLYNN
Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.
GILLIAN FLYNN
... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile.
GILLIAN FLYNN
When people ask me that question that everyone asks: "What do you do?" I'd say, "I'm in customer ser...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I’m a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal e...
GILLIAN FLYNN
But she did invite me to her house, and women like that don’t invite over women like me unless the...
GILLIAN FLYNN
She called me Nerdy because I wore glasses and read books and ate yogurt on my lunch break. I'm not ...
GILLIAN FLYNN
She defines and eliminates problems. She’s practical in an evil way.
GILLIAN FLYNN
Third choice is a single woman who has that open look. You know it : The same woman you stop to ask ...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they'...
GILLIAN FLYNN
So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I mean, if I were a guy, looking to pay a girl to wank
me off, I wouldn’t walk in the room an...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I never worked holidays, because holiday hand jobs are sad for everyone.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are...
GILLIAN FLYNN
inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual frien...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are...
GILLIAN FLYNN
But I lack formal education. So I’m left with the feeling that I’m smarter than everyone around ...
GILLIAN FLYNN
She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I DIDN’T STOP giving hand jobs because I wasn’t good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I...
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I heard you could do that—buy books by the yard, turn them into furniture. People are dumb. I’ll...
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Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I’m not a licensed therapis...
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I’m not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one.
GILLIAN FLYNN
She is an incredibly intelligent idiot
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I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but t...
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I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.
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The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and...
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I put on a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown up, big-girl clothes never qui...
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I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got ...
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Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich. We
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Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.
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... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile.
GILLIAN FLYNN
When people ask me that question that everyone asks: "What do you do?" I'd say, "I'm in customer ser...
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I’m a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal e...
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But she did invite me to her house, and women like that don’t invite over women like me unless the...
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She called me Nerdy because I wore glasses and read books and ate yogurt on my lunch break. I'm not ...
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She defines and eliminates problems. She’s practical in an evil way.
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Third choice is a single woman who has that open look. You know it : The same woman you stop to ask ...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they'...
GILLIAN FLYNN
So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I mean, if I were a guy, looking to pay a girl to wank
me off, I wouldn’t walk in the room an...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I never worked holidays, because holiday hand jobs are sad for everyone.
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I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are...
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inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual frien...
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Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.
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I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are...
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But I lack formal education. So I’m left with the feeling that I’m smarter than everyone around ...
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She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive.
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I DIDN’T STOP giving hand jobs because I wasn’t good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I...
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I heard you could do that—buy books by the yard, turn them into furniture. People are dumb. I’ll...
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Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I’m not a licensed therapis...
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I’m not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one.
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She is an incredibly intelligent idiot
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But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.
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Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.
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Money is wasted on the rich.
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People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.
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Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
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Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.
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Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have kno...
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Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that&#...
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That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all...
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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he m...
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and...
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For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not abo...
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you ...
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I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any ...
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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 g...
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figu...
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There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren...
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I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.
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The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
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Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Gi...
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My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged m...
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Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hai...
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I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a...
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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or d...
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Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you per...
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...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and thin...
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People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives w...
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I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, a...
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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 fe...
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People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the wor...
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I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter....
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Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'S...
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She was scared. I pictured the police knocking, and here I was with a girl I'd been fucking the morn...
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Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, ...
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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
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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 could see the cat was definitely on the steps. Still on the steps, 20 minutes after Carl's call. T...
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There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.
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The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people....
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Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back o...
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I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITE...
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was ...
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For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.
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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, pos...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame p...
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No one watches 'Taxi Driver' and says, 'Oh, it's a male-oriented film.' No one l...
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Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could ...
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I'm like that, nothing sticks.
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I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined ...
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It seemed like a joke, how much all of these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just era...
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A veces sienta bien joder a alguien. En vez de que siempre lo jodan a uno
GILLIAN FLYNN
Do you understand this is serious?"

"I understand you think it's serious.
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I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.
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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...
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When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself—it’s a hobby today, but at age fourtee...
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I've had the blues for twenty-four years.
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I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? ...
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The Days were a clan that mighta lived long
But Ben Day’s head got screwed on wrong
That...
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You think you know the answer, you’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix yo...
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Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.
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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did ...
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I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.
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There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster ...
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Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.
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Coffee goes great with sudden death.
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Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.
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I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.
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I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a bett...
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It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay,...
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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...
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I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredib...
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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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A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.
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You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation...
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I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don...
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He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in.
GILLIAN FLYNN
Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all wo...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the othe...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I'm the bitch who makes you a man.
GILLIAN FLYNN
It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figu...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love...
GILLIAN FLYNN
It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
GILLIAN FLYNN
My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a ...
GILLIAN FLYNN
There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.
GILLIAN FLYNN
Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Back in grade school, my shrinks tried to channel my viciousness into a constructive outlet, so I cu...
GILLIAN FLYNN
We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures...
GILLIAN FLYNN
in these shitty plastic days ...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. With Diane, worries were almost physical being...
GILLIAN FLYNN
And I don’t know, you’re at that age, if a bunch of grownups are telling you something or encour...
GILLIAN FLYNN
It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, a...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. Grant me the serenity to acc...
GILLIAN FLYNN
She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified no...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there—hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I knew you could do it, I knew you could, Libby," she mumbled into my hair, warm and smoky.
GILLIAN FLYNN
It's an insane, insane crime, a lot of it isn't going to make sense. That's why people are so obsess...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music.
GILLIAN FLYNN
Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs.
GILLIAN FLYNN
Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with.
GILLIAN FLYNN
The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.
GILLIAN FLYNN
Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comf...
GILLIAN FLYNN
See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earn...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spi...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbin...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s becau...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I'm definitely much more of a beach bunny. I prefer the sun over the snow.
GILLIAN ZINSER
I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-...
GILLIAN JACOBS
A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.
GILLIAN JACOBS
Just as sure as each knot on a fisherman's net does not physically connect so far as each knot forms...
GILLIAN DUCE
Love reached across space and time to find you. You are the smile of a million stars.
GILLIAN DUCE
I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that wa...
GILLIAN JACOBS
I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seb...
GILLIAN JACOBS
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
Feeling the anguish does not make you weak, but conceding and hiding from it makes a coward.
GILLIAN DUCE
I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.
GILLIAN ANDERSON
We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!
GILLIAN ANDERSON
Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in percept...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity,...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.
GILLIAN ANDERSON
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she i...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
We can only make ourselves the victim.
GILLIAN ANDERSON
It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
Success has nothing to do with happiness.
GILLIAN ANDERSON
Be courageous, believe in yourself, and be the best woman you can be. I'm with you all the way.
GILLIAN ANDERSON
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my a...
GILLIAN JACOBS
I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series afte...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, C...
GILLIAN JACOBS
I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.
GILLIAN JACOBS
My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.
GILLIAN JACOBS
I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others percei...
GILLIAN ZINSER
Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.
GILLIAN JACOBS
When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
In the Arab and Israeli worlds' eyes, Jared Kushner is a perfectly plausible American arbiter of...
GILLIAN TURNER