“My parents’ cherished heirloom looks ridiculous in the new house. But then all our New York stuff does. Our dignified elephant of a chesterfield with its matching baby ottoman sits in the living room looking stunned, as if it got sleep-darted in its natural environment and woke up in this strange new captivity, surrounded by faux-posh carpet and synthetic wood and unveined walls. I do miss our old place –”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“this town is sometimes too much, so desperate and so in denial.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“I sat at the bottom of the bathtub, humiliated, trying not to cry. So”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“No one saves an e-mail, because it’s so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters – from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia – I don’t know, I always think about what will be lost—”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
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