The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects

by Gillian Flynn

She worries over people she’s never met who have a spell of bad chance. She cries over news from across the globe. It’s all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings.

I’ve always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication—a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

I’ve always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.