Gillian Flynn Zitate

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„Es ist ein Unterschied, ob man einen Menschen wirklich liebt oder nur die Idee von ihm.“

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

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

Gillian Flynn buch Dark Places

“If you can't take care of me while I'm alive, you have made me dead anyway.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”

Gillian Flynn buch Sharp Objects

“This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.”

Gillian Flynn buch Sharp Objects

“There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile, it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.”

Gillian Flynn buch Dark Places

“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.”

Gillian Flynn buch Dark Places

“Sometimes it is all too loud.”

Gillian Flynn buch Sharp Objects

“In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”

Gillian Flynn buch Sharp Objects

“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“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 don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

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

Gillian Flynn buch Dark Places

“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”

Gillian Flynn buch Dark Places

“Daydreams can be dangerous.”

Gillian Flynn buch Sharp Objects

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

Gillian Flynn buch Sharp Objects

“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”

Gillian Flynn buch Sharp Objects

“Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“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.”

Gillian Flynn buch Sharp Objects

“I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay.”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“It’s a very female thing, isn’t it, to take one boys’ night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. 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?”

Gillian Flynn buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.”

Gillian Flynn buch Dark Places

“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”

Gillian Flynn buch Sharp Objects