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I wanted to make it clear that the show’s about a matriarchy. I wanted it to be clear that power can be ugly, and a matriarchy is just as ugly as a patriarchy. It may look a little different, but power is bloody.

— Gillian Flynn

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Sleep is like a cat: it only comes to you if you ignore it.

Gone Girl (2012)

She already has the righteous, eye-rolling cadence of a conspiracy crackpot. She might as well wrap her head in foil.

Gone Girl (2012)

I can see people milling about under the fluorescent lights. It’s the kind of place where people mill about.

Gone Girl (2012)

Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.

I don’t want to be married to a woman like you. I want to be married to a normal person.

Gone Girl (2012)

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