Gone Girl

Book · 4 characters · 127 quotes · 2011

Quotes from Gone Girl

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"I felt like a ghost in my own life."
Amy Dunne Solitude
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"He wanted me to be perfect. But I was always just myself."
Amy Dunne Truth
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"I couldn't forgive him. So I punished him."
Amy Dunne Justice
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"I was no longer a woman to him. I was a problem."
Amy Dunne Relationships
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"He should have known what I wanted."
Amy Dunne Power
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"I wanted to matter to someone."
Amy Dunne Love
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"I always had a violence inside me."
Amy Dunne Strength
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"What are you if you can't keep your own wife happy?"
Nick Dunne Relationships
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"Every man wants a beautiful young thing. Then he tires of her."
Amy Dunne Wisdom
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"I'm not sure I believe in marriage anymore."
Nick Dunne Relationships
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"Nick needed a real criminal, but I was only being myself."
Amy Dunne Truth
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"Being the right wife means changing completely into the woman he wants."
Amy Dunne Relationships
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"I killed my husband. I didn't expect to. But I did."
Amy Dunne Truth
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"I hated Nick for making me into this."
Amy Dunne
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"We're not really happy. I don't think people are."
Nick Dunne Happiness
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"I'm the perfect woman in a man's mind. I'm the girl he wanted to fuck."
Amy Dunne Power
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"People want a confession and catharsis. They want passion and violence and retribution."
Amy Dunne Truth
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"I wanted to be the kind of wife that made my husband feel like a man."
Amy Dunne Love
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"I was raised fickle and easily bored."
Amy Dunne Life
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"There's something disturbing about recalling a warm smell, a sort of truncated empathy."
Nick Dunne Philosophy
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"Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrinned, loving manner."
Amy Dunne Truth
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"I'm not a moron. I'm only a girl."
Amy Dunne Wisdom
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"What I want is to matter to him."
Amy Dunne Relationships
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"I am all-consuming."
Amy Dunne Power
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"We're going to have to get through this together."
Nick Dunne Relationships
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"Some women are born wicked. I was raised wicked."
Amy Dunne Truth
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"He makes me feel like I'm disappearing."
Amy Dunne Relationships
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"Real is so often disappointing."
Amy Dunne Truth
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"I wanted to be extraordinary."
Amy Dunne Dreams
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"We're not going to work this out with talking."
Nick Dunne Relationships