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Gone_Girl_(Flynn_novel) MANIPULATION MARRIAGE DISHONESTY PARENTING -…

- - - - Broke up with Andie
      - Had a video interview saying things that Amy wanted to hear
        
        “‘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.’
        Youfuckingbitchyoufuckingbitchyoufuckingbitch. Come home so I can kill you.” (301)
      - Wore what Amy bought for him
        
        "He is wearing my tie and when he lifts his hand to make a gesture, I see he is wearing my watch, the vintage Bulova Spaceview that I got him for his thirty-third birthday" (352)
      - Appeared on public media
        
        Had an interview with Sharon
        
        admitted cheating
        
        begged her to come home
        
        interview on Whodunnit.com
        
        begged her to come home
    - - Tanner Bolt's private detectives
      - met with Boney, Go to discuss plans
      - wrote his manuscript about his side of the story
  - - - Called Desi to her aid
      - Stayed in Desi's house
      - Killed Desi
    - - Tommy O'Hara
        
        accused of raping
        
        Because he knew Amy was pretending to be someone she wasn't
        
        "She's not the girl I thought I was dating. She can quote funny things, but she doesn’t actually like funny things." (278)
        
        Because he was seeing another girl
      - Hilary Handy
        
        accused of being a stalker
        
        Because Hilary's grade was a little better than Amy's
        
        Because friends hung out with Hilary, not Amy
      - Desi Collings
        
        told him that she was raped by her dad
    - - staged the living room
        
        “I want the house to tell a story of conflict between true and false. The living room looks staged, yet the blood has been cleaned up: It can’t be Amy!” (222)
      - created the anniversary treasure hunt game
        
        forced Nick to go to places where Andie and he met secretly
        
        His office
        
        Nick's dad's house
        
        Go's woodshed
        
        planted evidences in Go's shed
        
        all stuff that Nick denied not buying with his credit cards was found in there
        
        made him go to certain places at certain times
        
        Amy's purse was found in the river behind their house
        
        Amy's diary was hidden in Nick's dad's house
      - cut herself, then cleaned the blood
    - - “His pregnant wife!” (197)
      - Used her urine to fake the pregnancy
    - - Made Nick delete the book
      - Wrote an affidavit
- - - - “Oh, here is the rest of my life. It’s finally arrived.” (36)
    - - “I am a wife!” (44)
      - “With Nick, I realize it actually, truly doesn’t matter if the electricity bill is a few days late, if my latest quiz turns out a little lame." (44)
  - - - “Should I remove my soul before I come inside?” (10)
      - “To Amy, it was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife.”
        “One of us was always angry. Amy, usually.” (10)
    - - “I had a job for eleven years and then I didn’t, it was that fast.” (11)
      - “Three weeks after I got cut loose, Amy lost her job, such as it was.” (11)
    - - “Bile and dread inched up my throat.” (13)
    - - “You wouldn’t like it, his standard response any time I ask to come with him, wherever it is he goes.” (146)
      - “I craved touch in general, because my wife avoided mine” (152)
      - “And then I knew I didn’t love Amy anymore.” (153)
    - - “Let’s do this, Amy, let’s have a baby – and she said no.”
        “I begged her. Amy remained unmoved.” (296)
- - - - About the Houston's reservation
        
        “It was my fifth lie to the police. I was just starting.” (43)
      - They found panties, Nick said they were Amy's
      - Said that he didn't know what the 2nd clue meant
      - Said that the fight with Amy the night before the missing was nothing
    - - “My phone rang, the disposable, and I flicked a glance at the display, then shut it off. I needed to get rid of the thing, but I couldn’t yet.” (86)
  - - - “That I did mind when he didn’t show up for drinks with my friends.” (226)
- - - - Authors of the best-seller book Amazing Amy
        
        Created a perfect world for Amy
        
        “Amazing Amy has to be brilliant, creative, kind, thoughtful, witty, and happy. We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how.” (225)
        
        “They never, ever fully appreciated the fact that they were earning money from my existence, that I should have been getting royalties. Then, after they siphoned off my money” (240)
      - Loving couples
        
        “Marybeth and Rand Elliott were standing with their arms around each other… They kissed each other full on the mouth
        whenever they were parting, and Rand would cup his wife’s rear as he passed her. It was foreign to me.” (65)
      - They were psychologists
    - - Being uptight
        
        Found Hannah's phone number, “I’m feeling like a shrill fishwife, or a foolish doormat” (76)
        
        “I feel like I could disappear.” (108)
      - Always tried to be perfect
        
        “I have never been a nag. I have always been rather proud of my unnagginess. So it pisses me off, that Nick is forcing me to nag.” (91)
        
        "while I am stuck here on earth, and every day I must try, and every day is a chance to be less than perfect.” (223)
        
        “I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality.” (224)
      - Always wanted to be the winner
        
        “If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose. You don’t get what you want.” (226)
        
        “No. I couldn’t allow that. No. Never. Never. He doesn’t get to do this to me and still fucking win. No.” (236)
        
        “So I began to think of a different story, a better story, that would destroy Nick for doing this to me. A story that would restore my perfection. It would make me the hero, flawless and adored." (236)
        
        “I won’t divorce him because that’s exactly what he’d like.” (236)
  - - - Had troubles dealing with women
        
        “but I can’t deal with angry or tearful women. I feel my father’s rage rise up in me in the ugliest way.” (67)
        
        “I felt a surge of angst. What a fucking day. Boney was out to get me, Noelle was insane, Shawna was pissed, Hilary was resentful, the woman at the security company was a bitch, and my wife had stumped me finally.” (141)
        
        "I wanted to smack her." He thought about hitting Shawna Kelly, Andie, and Marybeth.
        
        “Andie had screwed me over, Marybeth had turned against me, Go had lost a crucial measure of faith. Boney had trapped me. Amy had destroyed me.”
        “Those fucking bitches.” (360)
      - Had troubles expressing feelings
        
        “So there it came, out of nowhere, as Rand begged for his daughter’s return: a killer smile.” (70)
        
        On the 3rd anniversary, Amy tried to talk, but he shut her out. He said, “Fuck you, Amy.” (75)
    - - His dad was a misogynist
        
        "He thought they were stupid, inconsequential, irritating." (66)
      - His dad was an abuser
        
        "Throwing things near her but not exactly at her. I’m sure he told himself: I never hit her.” (66)
      - Divorced when he was 12