#darkplaces

          BOOK STARTERS VOL.40    DARK PLACES    GILLIAN FLYNN

1. ❛ I was not a lovable child, and I’ve grown into a deeply unlovable adult. ❜
   
2. ❛ The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. ❜
   
3. ❛ I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark. ❜
   
4. ❛ I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don’t even ripple. ❜
   
5. ❛ I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. ❜
   
6. ❛ I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen. But the meanness usually wins out. ❜
   
7. ❛ I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn’t have loosened. A stitch come undone. ❜
   
8. ❛ Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it. ❜
   
9. ❛ Coffee goes great with sudden death. ❜
   
10. ❛ I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite. ❜
    
11. ❛ “Smile, it can’t be that bad!” Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad. ❜
    
12. ❛ Everything bad in the world already did happen. ❜
    
13. ❛ You’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? ❜
    
14. ❛ Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. ❜
    
15. ❛ Homesick for a place I’ve never been. ❜
    
16. ❛ Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. ❜
    
17. ❛ It is always consoling to think of suicide. It’s what gets one through many a bad night. ❜
    
18. ❛ Do you understand this is serious? ❜
    
19. ❛ Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with. ❜
    
20. ❛ How could you kill something you cared enough to name? ❜
    
21. ❛ Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs. ❜
    
22. ❛ We have the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. ❜
    
23. ❛ I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. ❜
    
24. ❛ The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue. ❜
    
25. ❛ Nothing to it but to do it. ❜
    
26. ❛ There are a lot of people who deserve a lesson, deserve to really understand, that nothing comes easy, that most things are going to go sour. ❜
    
27. ❛ If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a very Merry Christmas. ❜
    
28. ❛ Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. ❜
    
29. ❛ What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer? ❜
    
30. ❛ That mean old bitch across the street bit it. ❜