Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects (2006)

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

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

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

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They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

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

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I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

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I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

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Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

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I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

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

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It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

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

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It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

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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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For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.

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