The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.
Gillian FlynnTags: love loss change marriage relationships hatred criticism failure strangers bullying heartbreak nothing flaws broken-heart scary heartless turmoil puppeteer hurtful change-for-worse emotional-turmoil i-miss-who-you-were missing-who-someone-was
I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.
Gillian FlynnTags: truth words emotions panic control stoic anxiety mean emotional judging judgemental heartless dick judging-by-appearance what-s-inside-that-counts jumping-to-conclusions outer-appearance
She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
Gillian FlynnTags: evil grief stoic nothing release grieving gone heartless malicious sadistic black-heart unimportant sadist birdseed self-obsessed self-obsession
That isn't trust; that's foolishness! If a man has asked for your trust, it's a sure sign you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you. That is trust, my dear, not this leap in the dark..." (King Fidel)
Anne Elisabeth StenglTags: heartless tales-of-goldstone-wood
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