gillian flynn dark places

• ”i have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”

gillian flynn gone girl

• amy dunne Cool Girl monologue ⋆
• ”there’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
• ”there's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
• ”sleep is like a cat: it only comes to you when you ignore it.”
• ” ‘my gosh, nick, why are you so wonderful to me?' he was supposed to say: you deserve it. i love you. but he said, 'because i feel sorry for you.' ‘why?' 'because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”
• ”friends see most of each other’s flaws. spouses see every awful last bit.”
• ”it’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”
• ”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.”

jeffrey eugenides the virgin suicides

• ”it didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”

elizabeth wurtzel prozac nation

• ”that's the thing about depression: a human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. but depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”

john green looking for alaska

• ”it always shocked me when i realized that i wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
• ”at some point, you just pull off the band-aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”

susanna kaysen girl, interrupted

• ”i told her once i wasn’t good at anything. she told me survival is a talent.”