I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect.
Gillian FlynnTags: friendship friends control amy breakups lack-of-understanding drama-queen lacking gillian-flynn
We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.
Gillian FlynnTags: love family magic superstition unicorns elves siblings unicorn rare 70s old-fashioned twins the-70s the-seventies
I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)
Gillian FlynnTags: reality lies writing fantasy smile smiling liar lie ego writer pretending vain superiority-complex compulsive-lying egotistical compulsive-liar self-righteous crazy-bitch out-of-touch-with-reality vainity wannabe wannabewriter
He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.
Gillian FlynnTags: men funny irony t-shirt cocky manwhore
I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?
Gillian FlynnTags: love relationships brain thoughts the-unknown the-mind over-thinking gone-girl thinking-process centipedes
I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.
Gillian FlynnTags: life loss human-nature mistakes self-worth mistake failure life-lessons learning-from-mistakes employment career careers job-losses losing-self losing-hope getting-fired
The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
Gillian FlynnTags: change technology drinking sarcasm video-games alcohol americans new-age the-future recession tv bar the-past changes electronics the-internet electronic-books bourbon a-drink electronic-revolution electronic-software the-public the-recession
We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.
Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.
Tags: loss vanity drinking failure alcohol irony cat bar new-beginnings bars audrey-hepburn snobs breakfast-at-tiffany-s the-recession new-yorkers
in these shitty plastic days ...
Gillian FlynnTags: loss change technology human-nature destruction new-age fake the-past changes the-world stuck-in-a-rut plastic life-sucks a-new-world electronic-revolution a-new-age a-new-era the-good-days-are-gone
I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.
Gillian FlynnTags: love family trust brothers family-relationships loyalty sisters siblings brother unconditional-love sister twins sibling-relationships family-love sibling-bond
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