Frasi di Gillian Flynn

“A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente piace parlare, e io non sono mai stato un gran chiacchierone. Porto avanti un monologo interiore, ma spesso le parole non arrivano alle labbra. Com'è carina lei oggi, posso pensare, ma per qualche motivo non lo dico ad alta voce. Mia madre parlava, mia sorella parla. Crescendo, mi sono abituato ad ascoltare. Dunque starmene seduto sul divano da solo, in silenzio, mi pareva un lusso.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“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.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'

He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.

But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.'

'Why?'

'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”

Gillian Flynn libro Dark Places

“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 libro L'amore bugiardo

“Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”

Gillian Flynn libro Dark Places

“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 libro L'amore bugiardo

“We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”

Gillian Flynn libro Dark Places

“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so”

Gillian Flynn libro Dark Places

“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s because you’ve ripped a hole in your skin.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo