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"A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort."
— sharp objects by Gillian Flynn.
“Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can’t stop them? You can’t do anything, you just have to wait?“
sharp objects ... sentence starters
“I'm tired of dying.“
“It infects you. It ruined me.“
“Sometimes it is all too loud.”
“Daydreams can be dangerous.”
“I’m just her little doll to dress up.“
“It’s safer to be feared than loved.“
“Isn’t a smile a girl’s best weapon?”
“What do you think? Is he gonna crack?”
“It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.“
“You were always so willful, never sweet.“
“Everyone has their own version of a memory.”
“I was never really on my side in any argument.“
“Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own.“
“How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.“
“There was a murder there. Another one’s missing.“
“To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.“
“I've waited for this for so long. For you to need me.“
“I was already tired of talking, and I’d said very little.“
“The body's a miraculous thing. Let them do its work.“
“It’s all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings.“
“Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.“
“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.“
“I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me.“
“Sometimes parents aren’t always… good for their kids.”
“It hurts me that you don’t trust me to do the best for you.“
“I gave you good stuff. You don’t want to burn this bridge.“
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
“Your health is not a debt you just cancel. The body collects.”
“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”
“Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen to you?”
“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”
“That's what I'm worried about. We're looking at the wrong half.“
“If you listen to all the talk around here, everyone's crazy or evil.“
“On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me.“
“I would never steer a fellow sufferer from the relief of a blackout.”
“My demons are not remotely tackled, they're just mildly concussed.“
“I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”
“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious, again.”
“It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying “
“I just want things to be nice with us, but maybe I just don’t know how.”
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.“
“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”
“Almost everyone cracks if you push them hard enough... even if they're innocent.”
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.“
“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.“
“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.“
“When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.“
“She’d always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn’t want it.“
“I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.“
“What if, after you die, part of you goes to heaven, part of you stays here, just to see how things turn out?“
“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”
“My mama says all of history was written by men, so of course they’re gonna make themselves look good.”
“You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't, they're so numb they won't feel anything?“
“Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can’t stop them? You can’t do anything, you just have to wait?“
“I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.“
“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did.“
Sharp Objects Review (tv series) w/ SPOILERS
I’ll start with a thought so simple yet so strong inside of me: Gillian Flynn scares me!
Flynn likes to create powerful women - monsters, characters that are destroyed but don’t want to get fixed, girls who seem sweet but they are dark as fuck (as in Gone Girl, The Grownup - and I guess in Dark Places too -> my next read). But this time around she overdone it; or, if we wanna be exact, since it was her first novel, in her first try as an author she set the bar so high, all her other works feel like soft bed time stories.
Camille Preaker goes back to her home town to cover the murders of two young girls and gets in touch again with her haunted past. Sounds like another mystery plot, but it’s not. Camille is very self destructive and even though she’s in a better state than she was a few years ago, she’s still an alcoholic mess. What strucks me is that she never gets pretty ! She never becomes the attractive lead and even when she dresses up more formally, you can still see how messy and unbeautiful she is and feels. And that’s o k a y. It’s totally realistic and so rare to see to female characters!
Now about the elephant in the room: I suspected very early that Amma (during the whole show I thought her name was Emma and it was when I came to tumblr that I realised I’ve been hearing it wrong the whole time) might be the killer. Things that made me suspect her was how disrespectful and apathetic she seemed towards the dead girls and that she seemed like she wasn’t very sane in general. But Flynn made me suspect most women: Camille who, I thought, was living in her own paranoia of her mental illness, Jackie who, I thought, was the jealous midaged woman with the secrets and then Adora (another character’s name I’ve been hearing wrong, Adore Delano get out of my head).
Adora, Adora, Adora...The scene that scared me the most and made me think about it at night was a flashback Camille has: she’s sitting on the stairs watching her mother in the kitchen holding baby Marian in her hands, spinning around slowly, smiling and then opening her mouth so big like she’s about to eat her face. Yeap. That’s what mothers do in the dark. Anyway later on we find out that Adora is feeding her children poison instead of medicine when they’re sick, in order to get sicker and make them believe they need her to live and, honestly, give her reasons to live. So a. she killed Marian (and therefore she never loved her either) and b. we’re convinced that she is the killer of the other two girls. She gets caught, goes to jail just in time and Camille with Amma run (or drive) to the sunset to start a new, healthier life. Amma although she seems like she can’t disconnect from the Wind Gap drama, she makes a new friend and seems lighter, more of herself and not under the pressing roof of matriarchy. Camille in her final paper writes that she’s not sure if she wants to take care of Amma because she wants the best for her as her sister or because she has her mother’s illness. But who really has the illness?
It gives me chills even thinking about the final scene. The mother of Amma’s new friend comes in and innocently asks Camille if she knows where her daughter is. That moment I fully knew I’ve been tricked and I was right from the beginning for believing Amma was and still is the vicious killer. When Camille discovers what was inside the dollhouse she was never allowed to touch before, I'm still in shock. And when Amma comes home, Camille gives her the “it was you the whole time, I’m responsible now blah blah blah” look and Amma says “Don’t tell mama” I'm devastated.
Overall it was a very good plot, with a huge phychological depth building up like a spider’s web that could have been shorted out into fewer episodes, cause I was massively bored during 4-6 maybe 7 episode. Flynn’s characters kill when they’re dying from lack of attention. Amma couldn’t stand not being “the *only* good girl” for her mama. Adore paid attention to the other girls, so she took care of them. She probably felt like Camille became her mother so she killed the new girl, because she couldn’t even think she had to compete again with someone who may have been considered “better” than her...And the story ends there.
In the book the story continues, but I’m glad the series ended just there and I wouldn’t want to watch a season 2.
"Doesn't help anyone... riling folks up."
"Hm....
You've got too mutilated girls on your hands. I think someone else is doing the riling."
Camille Preaker: Being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to being a shallow person.
