Dark Places
Gillian Flynn
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so”
“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”
“I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”
“I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out. (2)”
“I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.”
“Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”
“Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.”
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Book Keywords:
resilience, strength, born, courage, children, secret, wild, indifference, upbringing, raised, apathy
