Gillian Flynn - Dark Places (2009)

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What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.

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There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

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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, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

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

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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 dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

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

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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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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.

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

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