Sharp Objects Quotes

“A veces creo que la enfermedad yace agazapada en el interior de todas las mujeres, esperando el momento oportuno para aflorar... He conocido a tantísimas mujeres «enfermas» en mi vida... Enfermas, más enfermas y las más enfermas. ¿Qué era real y qué era falso?”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I felt no particular allegiance to the town. This was the place my sister died, the place I started cutting myself. A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It’s the kind of place that leaves a mark.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Strangling is the very definition of dominance. Slow-motion murder.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Normally, Richard was the kind of guy I disliked, someone born and raised plush: looks, charm, smarts, probably money. These men were never very interesting to me; they had no edges, and they were usually cowards. They instinctively fled any situation that might cause them embarrassment or awkwardness.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It’s becoming quite a well-known disease. Popular. People love new and creepy. I remember when anorexia hit in the eighties. The more TV movies on it, the more girls starved themselves.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Had things turned out differently, I might have amused myself with a series of heart-wretched lovers. I might have dallied with brilliant men. I might have married.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Why else would you pull out a dead little girl’s teeth?” “He took her teeth?” “All but the back part of a baby molar.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it’s the only way to truly keep your child. Kids grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Okay, so what’s your favorite color, your favorite ice cream flavor, and your favorite season? “Blue, coffee, and winter.” “Winter. No one likes winter.” “It gets dark early, I like that.” “Why?” Because that means the day has ended. I like checking days off a calendar—”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I don’t mean this to sound cruel,” Tish began, “but it seems like part of your heart can never work if you don’t have kids. Like it will always be shut off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Amma and I were sick just like Marian. It had to be made that obvious to me before I finally understood—nearly twenty years too late.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I’ll take those for my room, Momma. They look fine to me.” “They’re not.” “I don’t mind.” “Camille, I was just looking at them, and they’re not good blooms.” She dropped the pliers to the ground, began tugging at a stem. “But they’re fine for me. For my room.” “Oh, now look what you’ve done. I’m bleeding.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I’ve always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication—a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“But in truth, I think she’s always had more problems with children than she’d ever admit. I think, in fact, she hates them. There’s a jealousy, a resentfulness that I can feel even now, in my memory.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Right, Annabelle,” Jackie said. “I’m sure if Joya were alive today, they’d have a grand old time. At least Joya would. She’d just love to tear at Camille. Remember those long, long nails of hers? Never painted them. I always thought that was weird.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Un oraş atât de sufocant şi de mic, încât zilnic te împiedicai de oameni pe care îi urai.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Curry was wrong: Being an insider here was more distracting than useful.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It wasn’t that I truly felt bad that I’d upset my mother—it was more that I hated any debits in her column.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“All those milk-fed, hog-fed, beef-fed early years. All those extra hormones we put in our livestock. We’ll be seeing toddlers with tits before long.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Given my druthers now, I’d prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding’s wife, “the Duchess,” who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook and avenged herself accordingly. Today I like my first ladies with a little bite. I”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I’m here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I’m panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I’m here. I don’t usually feel that I am. I feel like a warm gust of wind could exhale my way and I’d be disappeared forever, not even a sliver of fingernail left behind. On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me. My”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Sometimes it is all too loud.           T”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Sometimes you need to get lost for a little.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I know I'm a hateful creature.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Time to drop the illusion.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Finger, whore, hollow!”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It seemed to me that she'd been expelled into this world not quite formed.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I was rotten.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Uma criança criada com veneno considera dor um consolo.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Todo mundo tem um momento em que a vida sai dos trilhos.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects