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“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'

He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.

But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.'

'Why?'

'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“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.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“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?”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo's tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they're you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn't know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“It can be really exasperating to look back at your past. What’s the matter with you? I want to ask her, my younger self, shaking her shoulder. If I did that, she would probably cry. Maybe I would cry, too.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“what does 'functioning normally' mean?" I asked.
"Being able to face the past. Having a normal sex life. Not lying awake all night in fits of anxiety."
"Oh. Are most people able to face the past and have normal sex lives?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I think they are," she said. "Anyway, if anyone is, it should be me. Deep down I have a talent for well-being. I can feel it."
I nodded. I thought she had it, too, a talent for well-being.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“O que mais existe no mundo são pessoas que nunca vão se conhecer. Nasceram em um lugar distante, e o acaso não fará com que se cruzem. Um desperdício. Muitos desses encontros destinados a não acontecer poderiam ter sido arrebatadores.”
― Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

“A maior maldade de todos os tempos, a mais cruel, foi inventar que o sofrimento está para o bem assim como o prazer está para o mal.”
― Carla Madeira, Tudo é rio

“Um dia feliz tem mais poder que a tristeza de uma vida inteira. Nele moram as reviravoltas”
― Carla Madeira, Tudo é rio

“Eu vou embora, mas não vou passar fome, não vou ser miserável, não vou para o inferno. Sabe por que, titia? Porque não é você que decide isso. Porque Deus não gosta mais de você do que de mim. Implore por minha desgraça, reze todos os terços pra Deus me levar pro inferno, e, ainda assim, as minhas chances de conhecer o paraíso são iguais às suas.”
― Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

“Deus não é um lugar de certeza, é só um pouco de esperança.”
― Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma