BOOK STARTERS VOL.40 DARK PLACES GILLIAN FLYNN
❛ I was not a lovable child, and I’ve grown into a deeply unlovable adult. ❜
❛ The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. ❜
❛ I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark. ❜
❛ I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don’t even ripple. ❜
❛ I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. ❜
❛ I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen. But the meanness usually wins out. ❜
❛ I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn’t have loosened. A stitch come undone. ❜
❛ Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it. ❜
❛ Coffee goes great with sudden death. ❜
❛ I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite. ❜
❛ “Smile, it can’t be that bad!” Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad. ❜
❛ Everything bad in the world already did happen. ❜
❛ You’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? ❜
❛ Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. ❜
❛ Homesick for a place I’ve never been. ❜
❛ Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. ❜
❛ It is always consoling to think of suicide. It’s what gets one through many a bad night. ❜
❛ Do you understand this is serious? ❜
❛ Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with. ❜
❛ How could you kill something you cared enough to name? ❜
❛ Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs. ❜
❛ We have the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. ❜
❛ I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. ❜
❛ The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue. ❜
❛ Nothing to it but to do it. ❜
❛ There are a lot of people who deserve a lesson, deserve to really understand, that nothing comes easy, that most things are going to go sour. ❜
❛ If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a very Merry Christmas. ❜
❛ Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. ❜
❛ What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer? ❜
❛ That mean old bitch across the street bit it. ❜