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Sharp Objects Quotes

“If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Sex
“My sweater was new, singing red and ugly.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: first lines of books
“Everyone has their own version of a memory.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Memories, Past, differences
“I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn’t ruined. 153 and I haven’t destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won’t ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don’t have to worry about life anymore.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Safety, Death, Dying
“I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: liquor, Drinking, Protection
“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Suffering
“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Tears, Pain, unconscious
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Life, humanity, Communication
“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Women, Men, sickness
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Death, Life, creepy
“I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laugh. Getting out of the bath and seeing, out of the corner of my eye, down the side of a leg: babydoll. Pull on a sweater and, in a flash of my wrist: harmful. Why these words? Thousands of hours of therapy have yielded a few ideas from the good doctors. They are often feminine, in a Dick and Jane, pink vs. puppy dog tails sort of way. Or they're flat-out negative. Number of synonyms for anxious carved in my skin: eleven. The one thing I know for sure is that at the time, it was crucial to see these letters on me, and not just see them, but feel them.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: cutting, self-harm, Blood
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Image, Self-Worth, Self-Image, Taking Care of Yourself
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