Sharp Objects Quotes

“I sat in a room the color of egg yolk for two hours while the officer got my story down. The whole time I was thinking about Natalie going to autopsy, and how I would like to sneak in and put a fresh Band-Aid on her knee.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I feel very sad about those girls,” I said, but it sounded artificial, like a beauty contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Camille, do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can’t stop them? You can’t do anything, you just have to wait?”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I just think some women aren’t made to be mothers. And some women aren’t made to be daughters.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Sometimes when you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“People are strange”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Another time-honored ploy: A woman is less likely to throw you out if she’s offered her hospitality. If you have allergies or a cold, asking for a tissue is even better. Women love vulnerability. Most women.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Well, a little girl is more likely to trust a person who reminds her of her momma, right?” Depends on what her momma’s like, I thought.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“In Amma’s snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she’d whined at breakfast: I wish I’d be murdered. Amma didn’t want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn’t compete when they were alive.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“And people loved me. I was no longer the pity case (with, how weird, the dead sister). I was the pretty girl (with, how sad, the dead sister). And so I was popular.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I paced a bit, tried to remember how to breathe right, how to calm my skin. But it blared at me. Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I was never really on my side in any argument.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It was a town that bred complacency through cable TV and a convenience store.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Richard wanted to take me to all the town's secret places, the nooks only the locals knew about. Places where people meet to screw or smoke dope, where teens drink, or folks go to sit by themselves and decide where their lives had unraveled. Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I 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

“Imagine the righteous dismay when Ann arrived. She got slapped with some family name—didn’t even get the extra e to ornament it a bit.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them - Amma Crellin”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Someday I’ll carve my name there.” She shook me once, released me, then left me on the stairs with the warm remains of our liquor.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I think I finally realized why I don’t love you,” she said.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“A veces mis cicatrices tienen vida propia.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“As a child I don't remember ever telling Adora my favorite colour or what I'd like to name my daughter when I grew up. I don't think she ever knew my favorite dish and I certainly never padded down to her room in the early morning hours teary from nightmares. I always feel sad for the girl that I was because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me and I never assumed she did she tended to me she administrated me, oh yes, and one time she bought me lotion with vitamin E.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“She had an invisible friend, a giant stuffed bear she called Ben. What kind of kid has an imaginary friend that’s a stuffed animal? She collected hair ribbons and arranged them in alphabetical order by color name. She was the kind of girl who exploited her cuteness with such joy you couldn’t begrudge her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“My mother breezed in, smelling like bright blue water. She looked more comfortable in the Nash house than Mrs. Nash did. It was a natural gift for Adora, making other women feel incidental.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don’t, they’re so numb they won’t feel anything?” “Mmm.” “What if it’s the opposite?” Amma whispered. “What if you hurt because it feels so good? Like you have a tingling, like someone left a switch on in your body. And nothing can turn the switch off except hurting? What does that mean?”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Camille, non hai mai la sensazione che stia per accadere qualcosa di orribile e che tu non possa fare niente per evitarlo? La sensazione di poter solo aspettare?”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Talvolta è davvero tutto troppo rumoroso.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects