Denis Thurrell

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

“When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“If I ain’t nothing but trouble, you ain’t nothing but Nothing.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

“Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary