“I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“You love people. They disappoint you. But sometimes, they don’t. They just keep loving you, right through it all, waiting for you to wake up and appreciate them. To say, “I love you. I’ve always loved you back.”
― I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
― I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
“We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“I fell asleep smiling, fully at ease with the ludicrous prospect of spending the rest of my life with this one, single person. It's not quite right what they say: love doesn't make you blind, it makes you optimistic.”
― I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
― I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
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