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“And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra ten pounds, the dismissive boss, the conniving sister, the straying husband. I've always hovered above their stories, nodding in sympathy and thinking how foolish they are, these women, to let these things happen, how undisciplined. And now to be one of them! One of the women with the endless stories that make people nod sympathetically and think: Poor dumb bitch.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
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