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Gillian Flynn Quotes about Pain

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

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

Gillian Flynn
Pain, Sleep, Cat
Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.69, Broadway Books

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

Gillian Flynn
Pain, Way, Calm
Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.54, Broadway Books

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
Pain, Men, Thinking
Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.198, Broadway Books

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