Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl (2012)

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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

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There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

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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 genuine souls.

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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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Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

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

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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

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You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

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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 feeling was mutual.

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I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.

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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.)

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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

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I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I'm obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I've basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There's a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.

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

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

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

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Friends see most of each other's flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

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