The Grownup
Gillian Flynn
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”
“Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.”
“People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.”
“Money is wasted on the rich.”
“I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.”
“But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.”
“Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I’m not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time.”
“I’m not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one.”
“She is an incredibly intelligent idiot”
“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”
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