Sharp Objects Quotes

“He thought I’d be his best reporter, said I had a surprising mind. In my two years on the job I’d consistently fallen short of expectations.”
― 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.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I have a special fondness for Calhoon. Sometimes it is all too loud.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“What’s wrong with my mother?” “What’s wrong with you? You’re a cutter?”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Let’s begin slowly. First, who did each of the girls bite?” “I can’t say.” “Goddam it, Camille, I’m not fucking around. Tell me.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“mother, and this more than anything about her turns my stomach. 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.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“She looked like a plastic baby doll,”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Very rarely did Alan and I talk outside of my mother's presence. As a child, I'd once bumped into him in the hallway, and he'd bent down stiffly, to my eye level, and said, "Hello, I hope you're well." We'd been living in the same house for more than five years, and that's all he could come up with. "Yes, thank you," was all I could give in return.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Now it was just me, feeling sticky and stupid. I couldn't decide if i'd been mistreated. By Richard, by those boys who took my virginity, by anyone. I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase "got what she deserved". Sometimes women do.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Tell me who you think did it", i said. He looked shocked. Was he expecting "i love you"?”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I drank the rest of the sours and had dark sticky dreams. My mother had cut me open and was unpacking my organs, stacking them in a row on my bed as my flesh flapped to either side. She was sewing her initials into each of them, then tossing them back into me, along with a passel of forgotten objects: an orange Day-Glo rubber ball I got from a gumball machine when I was ten; a pair of violet wool stockings I wore when I was twelve; a cheap gold-tinted ring a boy bought me when I was a freshman. With each object, relief that it was no longer lost.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects