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#1

“Chucking her under her chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets."

And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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#2

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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#3

“The trees like lungs filling with air
My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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#4

“When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, "Buffeted but not broken.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

tags: emotional-state, mental-illness, suicide, the-virgin-suicides

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#5

“Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

tags: children, parents, strangers, the-virgin-suicides

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#6

“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;
Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth
With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.
She hath no questions, she hath no replies.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

tags: burial, christianity, death, earth, funeral, poem, poetry, rebirth, suicide, the-virgin-suicides

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#7

“During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

tags: anorexia, collarbones, rain, skinny, suicide, the-virgin-suicides

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#8

“Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

tags: chastity, lyrics, music, sex, suicide, the-virgin-suicides, virginity

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#9

“I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: brain, centipedes, gone-girl, love, over-thinking, relationships, the-mind, the-unknown, thinking-process, thoughts

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#10

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#11

“I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: career, careers, employment, failure, getting-fired, human-nature, job-losses, learning-from-mistakes, life, life-lessons, losing-hope, losing-self, loss, mistake, mistakes, self-worth

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#12

“The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: a-drink, alcohol, americans, bar, bourbon, change, changes, drinking, electronic-books, electronic-revolution, electronic-software, electronics, new-age, recession, sarcasm, technology, the-future, the-internet, the-past, the-public, the-recession, tv, video-games

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#13

“in these shitty plastic days ...”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: a-new-age, a-new-era, a-new-world, change, changes, destruction, electronic-revolution, fake, human-nature, life-sucks, loss, new-age, plastic, stuck-in-a-rut, technology, the-good-days-are-gone, the-past, the-world

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#14

“We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.
Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: alcohol, audrey-hepburn, bar, bars, breakfast-at-tiffany-s, cat, drinking, failure, irony, loss, new-beginnings, new-yorkers, snobs, the-recession, vanity

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#15

“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: compulsive-liar, compulsive-lying, crazy-bitch, ego, egotistical, fantasy, liar, lie, lies, out-of-touch-with-reality, pretending, reality, self-righteous, smile, smiling, superiority-complex, vain, vainity, wannabe, wannabewriter, writer, writing

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#16

“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.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#17

“He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: cocky, funny, irony, manwhore, men, t-shirt

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#18

“He has a great smile, a cat's smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#19

“We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: 70s, elves, family, love, magic, old-fashioned, rare, siblings, superstition, the-70s, the-seventies, twins, unicorn, unicorns

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#20

“I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: brother, brothers, family, family-love, family-relationships, love, loyalty, sibling-bond, sibling-relationships, siblings, sister, sisters, trust, twins, unconditional-love

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#21

“She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: cancer, cigarette, cigarettes, death, inevitable, smoke, smoking

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#22

“Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: anxiety, anxious, blank-mind, brain, forgetting, going-blank, lost-thoughts, panic, panic-attack, spelling-bee, the-human-mind, the-mind, thinking, thoughts

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#23

“Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: family, happiness, ideal-love, ideal-lover, jellyfish, love, marriage, other-half, peace, perfection, relationships, soul-mate, soul-mates, true-love, unconditional-love

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#24

“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#25

“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.)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#26

“...and 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.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: alcohol, alone-forever, average, cold, drink, empty, fine, life, loneliness, lonely, love, mediocre, not-good-enough, okay, stuck-in-a-rut, thinking, thoughts, try-too-hard

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#27

“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

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#28

“I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: anxiety, control, dick, emotional, emotions, heartless, judgemental, judging, judging-by-appearance, jumping-to-conclusions, mean, outer-appearance, panic, stoic, truth, what-s-inside-that-counts, words

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#29

“The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: broken-heart, bullying, change, change-for-worse, criticism, emotional-turmoil, failure, flaws, hatred, heartbreak, heartless, hurtful, i-miss-who-you-were, loss, love, marriage, missing-who-someone-was, nothing, puppeteer, relationships, scary, strangers, turmoil

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#30

“She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: birdseed, black-heart, evil, gone, grief, grieving, heartless, malicious, nothing, release, sadist, sadistic, self-obsessed, self-obsession, stoic, unimportant

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