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“I was scared of you. Being around you, it was like—you were everything I wasn’t supposed to want. You’re—no one told me about you. When I was growing up, it was always, ‘One day, when you meet a nice boy,’ or, ‘When you have a husband….’ No one ever told me that it might be different. That it would be okay to be different.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The whole thing had taken nine days. Nine days to be told that the daughter she had been best friends with, the daughter she had looked after and laughed with and loved, had been someone she hadn’t really known. That she’d been someone filled with a sadness so great it had taken her last breath and yet Kate had somehow missed all the signs.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whenever i see new stories about children who were killed by their own parents i think ... but how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, They had a moment at least one moment when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child , decided what will they call their baby .
How could you kill something you cared enough to name?”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“La mesquinerie qui m'habite est aussi réelle qu'un organe. Si on me fendait le ventre, elle pourrait fort bien se glisser dehors, charnue et sombre, tomber par terre, et on pourrait sauter dessus à pieds joints.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Ça a toujours été le cas. Les gens voulaient toujours savoir : quel genre de femme se fait assassiner par son propre fils ?”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I hate people who start their conversations with facts . What are supposed to do with that?
sure is hot today ! yes it is .”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Je n'étais pas une enfant aimable, et je suis devenue une adulte profondément mal aimable. Si on voulait dessiner mon âme, on obtiendrait un gribouillis avec des crocs pointus.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“People always were , they always wanted to know, what kind of women gets slaughtered by her own son?”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“but it didn't feel like it belonged to me ... not in any permanent sense , happy was my adopted country , not my native land . I was still bracing to be expelled without warning .”
― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her

“How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name