“Everyone has their own version of a memory.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Past, differences
“I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn’t ruined. 153 and I haven’t destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won’t ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to ge…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Safety, Death, Dying
“I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: liquor, Drinking, Protection
“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.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Sadness, Suffering
“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Tears, Pain, unconscious
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Life, humanity, Communication
“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…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Women, Men, sickness
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Personality, Opinions, Life
“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, amazon.comTagged: Death, Life, creepy
“I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laug…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: cutting, self-harm, Blood
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Image, Self-Worth, Self-Image, Taking Care of Yourself