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

— Gillian Flynn Gone Girl (2012)

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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)

You can’t be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it’s always waiting to return. Like the world’s sweetest cancer.

Gone Girl (2012)

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Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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