BOOK STARTERS VOL.52 SHARP OBJECTS GILLIAN FLYNN
❛ The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you. ❜
❛ Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. ❜
❛ Women get consumed. ❜
❛ Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. ❜
❛ A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort. ❜
❛ Safer to be feared than loved. ❜
❛ I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence. ❜
❛ It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wish I could stop trying. ❜
❛ I always feel sad for the girl that I was. ❜
❛ Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes. ❜
❛ How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? Anything could happen. ❜
❛ See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was. ❜
❛ Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. ❜
❛ To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting. ❜
❛ I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am. ❜
❛ I'm tired of dying. ❜
❛ What if you hurt because it feels so good? ❜
❛ How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow. ❜
❛ 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? ❜
❛ Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own. ❜
❛ Everyone has their own version of a memory. ❜
❛ Isn’t a smile a girl’s best weapon? ❜
❛ My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past. ❜
❛ Do what I want; I might like you. ❜
❛ I feel sorry for Persephone because even when she’s back with the living, people are afraid of her because of where’s she’s been. ❜
❛ She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. ❜
❛ The sight of it actually does something to you, makes you less human. ❜
❛ It infects you. It ruined me. ❜
❛ Your health is not a debt you just cancel. The body collects. ❜
❛ Men love to put things inside women, don’t they? ❜