Sharp Objects Quotes

“Uma cidade tão sufocante e pequena que todos os dias você esbarrava em pessoas que odiava. Pessoas que sabiam coisas sobre você. É o tipo de lugar que deixa marcas.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I was hoping Betsy Nash would disappear. Literally. She was so insubstantial, I could imagine her slowly evaporating, leaving only a sticky spot on the edge of the sofa. But she lingered, eyes darting between me and her husband before we even began speaking. Like she was winding up for the conversation. The children, too, hovered about, little blonde ghosts trapped in a limbo between indolence and stupidity. The pretty girl might do all right. But the piggy middle child, who now waddled dazedly into the room, was destined for needy sex and snack-cake bingeing. The boy was the type who’d end up drinking in gas-station parking lots. The kind of angry, bored kid I saw on my way into town.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“His nametag said Jose. I tried to see if he was missing any fingers. Mexicans don’t get cushy box jobs unless they’re owed. That’s the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. Sometimes women do.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“See, Curry, Detective Willis felt I was holding back some information and so he sulked off, like all men do when they don’t get their way with women they’ve fooled around with.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I wasn’t entirely sure about Meredith’s assessment. Some people would love to have the killer be a guy born and raised in Wind Gap. Someone they went fishing with once, someone they were in Cub Scouts with. Makes a better story.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“You're here covering the murders, bad girl," Jackie continued. "Adora must hate that. Sleeping in her house with your dirty little brain. (...) Course before Adora took it over, we all slept over at Joya's house with our dirty little brains. Same house, different crazy lady running it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It was commonly known that Annabelle absolutely hated her husband’s last name—she even crumpled up her nose when she said it. It never occurred to her that she didn’t have to take it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The nurses gave us meds to alleviate our tingling skins. And more meds to soothe our burning brains.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Yet most of the time that I’m awake, I want to cut. Not small words either. Equivocate. Inarticulate. Duplicitous. At my hospital back in Illinois they would not approve of this craving.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper pastel pastorals, a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The latter was particularly strange, since I’d known little about Mrs. Roosevelt, except that she was good, which at the time I suppose was enough. 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.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Once you’ve crossed state lines, you don’t phone to ask if you can drop in.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I hope you’re feeling better about yourself too, Camille. That’s an important thing, liking oneself. A good attitude infects just as easily as a bad one.” “Enjoy the horses.” “I always do.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious lust, to wall themselves away from sticky emotions. Extra space is always good.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Cute kids, really cute clothes. I’d just created a tagline for Wind Gaps’ li’l shoppers.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“She was a real talker, said whatever come into her mind. In a good way. Mostly.” She was silent again for a few beats, but I could see her thinking back behind her eyes so I said nothing. “You know, I thought maybe she’d be a lawyer or college debater or something someday, because she was just … she never stopped to measure her words. Like me. I think everything I say is stupid. Ann thought everyone should hear everything she had to say.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I’m not one of those reporters who relishes picking through people’s privacy. It’s probably the reason I’m a second-rate journalist.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“From the pay phone at the library I dialed the number on the Missing poster. An elderly female voice identified it as the Natalie Keene Hotline, but in the background I could hear a dishwasher churning. The woman informed me that so far as she knew, the search was still going in the North Woods. Those who wanted to help should report to the main access road and bring their own water. Record temperatures were expected.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“tomboy. I’m actually”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Não sou do tipo de repórter que se delicia ao entrar na intimidade das pessoas. Provavelmente é por isso que sou uma jornalista de segunda. Uma delas, pelo menos.”
― Gillian Flynn, Objetos cortantes

“Eu esperava por grandes painéis de carvalho, um vidro na porta — com Chefe “escrito” —, para que os focas pudessem nos ver discutindo a liberdade de imprensa. O escritório de Curry é sem graça e institucional, como o resto do prédio. Você poderia debater jornalismo ou fazer um papanicolau. Ninguém ligaria.”
― Gillian Flynn, Objetos cortantes

“Most sows are repeatedly inseminated, brood after brood, till their bodies give way and they go to slaughter. But while they’re still useful, they’re made to nurse—strapped to their sides in a farrowing crate, legs apart, nipples exposed. Pigs are extremely smart, sociable creatures, and this forced assembly-line intimacy makes the nursing sows want to die. Which, as soon as they dry up, they do.”
― 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.” “I agree,” Katie said. “I didn’t really become a woman until I felt Mackenzie inside me. I mean, there’s all this talk these days of God versus science, but it seems like, with babies, both sides agree. The Bible says be fruitful and multiply, and science, well, when it all boils down, that’s what women were made for, right? To bear children.” “Girl power,” Becca muttered under her breath.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“We could have been day players in an amateur porn flick.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Three girls until, at last, their baby boy. As I sipped my bourbon and cracked peanuts, I pondered the growing desperation the Nashes must have felt each time a child popped out without a penis.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I have a guy in my office—sensitive. When I got passed over for a promotion, he suggested I sue for discrimination. I wasn’t discriminated against, I was a mediocre reporter. And sometimes drunk women aren’t raped; they just make stupid choices—and to say we deserve special treatment when we’re drunk because we’re women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“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

“Vickery, a slim fellow in his early fifties, had already sweated through his uniform. His shirt clung to his chest, and his pants puckered out in back where an ass should have been.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Jackie, shut up,” Annabelle said, and threw a roll, hard, at Jackie’s face. It bounced off her nose and thumped onto the table.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects