Gone Girl Quotes
"I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?"
"There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold."
"People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges."
"It’s a relief to be ridiculous over a man. It’s a relief."
"My wife was no longer my wife but a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers."
"Sometimes, in particularly shameful moments, I heard his voice in my head."
"I am fat with love! Husky with ardor! Morbidly obese with devotion!"
"I had a face you want to punch: I’m a working-class Irish kid trapped in the body of a total trust-fund douchebag."
"I was raised by pragmatic parents who pictured their child as a future office worker of some sort, making a living of some sort."
"I respect rules, because if you follow rules, things go smoothly, usually."
"Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it."
"It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless automat of characters."
"I’ve literally seen it all, and the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: The secondhand experience is always better."
"It’s just so far from what I pictured. When I pictured my life. That’s not to say bad, just … If you gave me a million guesses where life would take me, I wouldn’t have guessed."
"Every wife’s dream man, the counterpoint to every man’s fantasy of the sweet, hot, laid-back woman who loves sex and a stiff drink."
"Men forget to take care of themselves. Comfort food is what you need."
"The greedy, angle-hungry writer in me, impossible to turn off."
"I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second."
"He is (was) the loader of the dishwasher, the packer of the holiday bags."
"I was wrong. Just say: I was wrong, I’m sorry, let’s take the bed."
"I don’t feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock."
"If she were alive, someone would need to return her."
"I’d come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish."
"I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse."
"I can’t even look behind me as we leave New York."
"I am the Margaret Mead of the goddamn Mississip."
"I was so disgusted with myself. I sat at the bottom of the bathtub, humiliated, trying not to cry."
"I couldn’t imagine having to discuss the divorce with Rand and Marybeth, as they certainly would insert themselves into the fray."
"Love makes you want to be a better man – right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are."
"I am such an idiot. Sometimes I look at myself and I think: No wonder Nick finds me ridiculous, frivolous, spoiled, compared to his mom."
"It was a form of punishment, of rage, but not the kind that occurred in my house."
"The horrifying thing was, if the sex had been outrageously mind-blowing, that might have been my sole indiscretion."
"You are supposed to lean on your spouse in hard times, but Nick seems to have gone even further away."
"It’s odd, she actually looks better fat. ‘See, try to put your finger on one.’"
"Weird, huh? You feel good about yourself. Completely good, for maybe the first time."
"I can’t handle one more bit of stress. I can’t handle one more thing to worry about. I am cracking under the pressure."
"We’re under a lot of pressure, baby. We’ve had a few bumps, and I know a lot of it is my fault."
"I knew it was going to be bad. I knew it once I figured out the clue: woodshed. Midday fun. Cocktails."
"But it’s so very necessary. Nick must be taught a lesson."
"It is enough, especially once the police discover Able Andie."
"I am pleased with myself; I have three hours more until I reach the thick of the Missouri Ozarks and my destination."
"This is the hardest part: waiting for stupid people to figure things out."
"The Ellen Abbott cameras are now panning the Volunteer Center, which looks a little shabby."
"My home was disheveled but not yet wrecked when she first started kissing my husband."
"I felt like the ultimate cheat and coward, and – the catch-22 – I craved Andie to make me feel better."
"I have shed myself of Nick, and yet I think about him more than ever."
"I can feel my bottom move sometimes, on its own, when I walk. A wiggle and a jiggle, wasn’t that some old saying?"
"Amy finds out you’re cheating. She fakes her death. She makes the supposed crime scene look just fishy enough to raise eyebrows."
"My wife, she just happens to be the coolest girl I’ve ever met. How many guys can say that? I married the coolest girl I ever met."
"Amy was on the phone, repeating that license plate. She had a whole story: She was traveling with her two-year-old, and the driver had nearly run her off the road."
"I picture myself as your student, with a teacher so handsome and wise."
"I was just glad she went away. Then last week, I’m eating my Thai food, sitting in my bed, watching the news report. On Amy. On you."
"Amazing Amy knocked up is irresistible. Americans like what is easy, and it’s easy to like pregnant women."
"I don’t want to ask, and you don’t want to answer. I get that. But I need to hear you say it. You didn’t kill our daughter."
"I have only a finite amount – $9,132 at this point. I will need more."
"But then I realized it wasn’t even that. It was her. She wasn’t perfect."
"My husband has finished the treasure hunt and he is in love."
"It’s strange how little I own in this world when I used to own so much."
"One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent set of scissors. It leads to bad things."
"I picture the police scouring the cabins, finding nothing, and then, like a movie, I go in for a close-up of one lone mousy hair of mine."
"You don’t ever – ever – do something like that again."
"You have to be extremely careful with your wording."
"What’s the mental equivalent of a speed bag?"
"Everywhere felt like a jail now – doors opening and closing and opening and closing, and me never feeling safe."
"The shouts got louder, frantic, baiting my sister."
"My neighbor Jan Teverer was one of them. She and I made eye contact, and she aimed her poster at me."
"It took ten minutes for me to nudge my car from my driveway into my garage."
"I spent the rest of my day picturing how I’d kill Amy."
"I wanted to do something, make something happen, but there was nothing to be done."
"Rage in all five senses. Those fucking bitches."
"I’d tried all my life to be a decent guy, a man who loved and respected women."
"I opened the door, flung it wide, greeting fury with fury."
"I swear I saw a blank whiteness for just a second, a moment of complete, jarring clarity."