Gillian Flynn

Dark places

Merry Rudinger

sariya

"I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it."

"I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs."

"That's how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks." 

"I can never dwell on these thoughts. I've labeled the memories as if they were a particularly dangerous region: Darkplace."

"I was born bent out of shape. I could picture myself coming out of the womb crooked and wrong."

"I am a liar and a thief. Don’t let me into your house, and if you do, don’t leave me alone. I take things. You can catch me with your string of fine pearls clickering in my greedy little paws, and I’ll tell you they reminded me of my mother’s and I just had to touch them, just for a second, and I’m so sorry, I don’t know what came over me. My mom never owned any jewelry that didn’t turn her skin green, but you won’t know that. And I’ll still swipe the pearls when you’re not looking."

"...worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately."

"She never wrote Mommy, I thought, we never called her that as kids. I want my mommy, I thought. We never said that. I want my mom. I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone."

"I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way."

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