Frasi di Gillian Flynn

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“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

“Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“I’ve suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be, I find offensive.”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.”

Gillian Flynn libro Dark Places

“It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn't.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“I've had the blues for twenty-four years.”

Gillian Flynn libro Dark Places

“Sometimes I feel like Nick has decided on a version of me that doesn't exist.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked it or I didn’t. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.”

Gillian Flynn libro Dark Places

“Hell, at this point, I can’t imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“He Giving Treed me out of existence.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.”

Gillian Flynn libro Dark Places

“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I’m tired of not knowing who I’ll be with, or if I’ll be
with anyone.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination.”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“No one I've loved has ever not had an agenda.”

Gillian Flynn

“So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.”

Gillian Flynn libro L'amore bugiardo

“I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phraseSometimes women do.”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“I'm tired of dying.”

Gillian Flynn libro Sharp Objects

“Do you understand this is serious?"

"I understand you think it's serious.”

Gillian Flynn libro Dark Places