Sharp Objects Quotes

“They’d learn from Mom to be particularly cruel to the ugly girls, the poor girls, girls who just wanted to be left alone. Too much to ask.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I thought being home might do you hood, but… I forget sometimes parents aren’t always good for their kids.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I did feel sad, but articulating it felt cheap to me.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to being a shallow person.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“... 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

“As a child, I don’t remember ever telling Adora my favorite color, 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.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It is almost May 12, one year exactly from my return to Wind Gap. The date also happens to be Mother’s Day this year. Clever. Sometimes I think about that night caring for Amma, and how good I was at soothing her and calming her. I have dreams of washing Amma and drying her brow. I wake with my stomach turning and a sweaty upper lip. Was I good at caring for Amma because of kindness? Or did I like caring for Amma because I have Adora’s sickness? I waver between the two, especially at night, when my skin begins to pulse.

Lately, I’ve been leaning toward kindness.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“mother’s”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“152 and the world isn’t ruined. 153 and I haven’t destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won’t ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don’t have to worry about life anymore.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Los problemas siempre empiezan mucho antes de que llegues a verlos realmente.”
― Gillian Flynn, Heridas abiertas

“¿Cómo te mantienes a salvo cuando tu día entero es tan inmenso y vacío como el cielo?”
― Gillian Flynn, Heridas abiertas

“I don't know if anything can be any good anywhere, so it's hard to gauge if this is better or worse.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Jackie’s words stuck with me: Way things are with your mother, you’re better in Chicago. How much more of a sign did I need to leave Wind Gap? I wondered exactly why she and Adora had fallen out. Had to be more than a forgotten greeting card. I made a mental note to drop by Jackie’s when she was less looped. If she ever was. Then again, I was hardly the one to frown on a drinker”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Natalie’s mother made her way to the podium, clutching a piece of paper. Her face was wet, but her voice was solid when she began speaking. “This is a letter to Natalie, my only daughter.” She took a shaky breath and the words streamed out. “Natalie, you were my dearest girl. I can’t believe you have been taken from us. Never again will I sing you to sleep or tickle your back with my fingers. Never again will your brother get to twirl your pigtails, or your father hold you on his lap. Your father will not walk you down the aisle. Your brother will never be an uncle. We will miss you at our Sunday dinners and our summer vacations. We will miss your laughter. We will miss your tears. Mostly, my dear daughter, we will miss you. We love you, Natalie.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Are there any theories about Ann?” I asked. “Some loony, some crazy man musta done it. Some guy rides through town, forgot to take his pills, voices are talking to him. Something like ’at.” “Why do you say that?” He stopped, pulled a package of chaw from his back pocket, buried a fat pinch in his gumline and worked it until he got the first tiny cut to let the tobacco in. The lining of my mouth began tingling in sympathy. “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

“Young ladies must be in control of their bodies, because young boys are not.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I hear they come to all the high-school parties,” DeeAnna said. “And take all the boys. And do things we didn’t do till we were old married women—and then only after the transaction of a few nice pieces of jewelry.” She twirled a diamond tennis bracelet.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Marian is dead. I couldn't stop. I've lost 12 pounds and am skin and bones. Everyone's been incredibly kind. People can be so wonderful.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I know. It's just that I'm wondering why you've decided to be nice to me now.'
'Sometimes I can't. But right now, I can. When everyone's asleep and everything's quiet, it's easier.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Problemas sempre começam muito antes de você realmente vê-los.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Problemas sempre começam muito antes de você realmente vê-los”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Every tragedy that happens in the world happens to my 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

“I didn’t need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I was.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Das Gesicht, das du der Welt zeigst, zeigt anderen, wie du behandelt werden möchtest.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“pipes”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Was I good at caring for Amma because of kindness? Or did I like caring for Amma because I have Adora’s sickness?”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Because that means the day has ended. I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn’t ruined. 153 and I haven’t destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won’t ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don’t have to worry about life anymore.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Eu gosto do inverno pois escurece cedo e isso significa que o dia acabou. Gosto de riscar os dias no calendário - 151 dias riscados e não aconteceu nada verdadeiramente horrível. 152 e o mundo não desabou. 153 e não destruí ninguém. 154 e ninguém me odeia verdadeiramente.
Às vezes penso que nunca me sentirei segura até conseguir contar os meus últimos dias numa mão. Mais três dias para ultrapassar até não ter de me preocupar mais com a vida.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The day of Amma’s arrest, the day it finally, completely unraveled, Curry and Eileen parked themselves on my couch, like concerned salt and pepper shakers.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects