People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

—Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl

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About Gillian Flynn

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Gillian Schieber Flynn (; born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer, best known for her thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012). Her works have been published in 40 languages, and by 2016, Gone Girl had sold over 15...

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It really is true. It took this awful situation for us to realize it. We fit together. I am a little too much, and he is a little too little. I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them.

—Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl

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Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.

—Harriet Lerner

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

—Carolyn G. Heilbrun

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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

—Bertrand Russell

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