"Then Nick will die too. Nick and Amy will be gone, but then we never really existed. Nick loved a girl I was pretending to be; Cool Girl. Men always use that, don't they, as their defining compliment. She's a Cool Girl. Cool Girl is hot. Cool Girl is game. Cool Girl is fun. Cool Girl never gets angry at her man. She only smiles, in a chagrined, loving manner, and then presents her mouth for fucking. She likes what he likes. So evidently, he's a vinyl hipster who likes fetish manga. If he likes girls gone wild, she's a mall babe, who talks football and endures Buffalo Wings at Hooter's. When I met Nick Dunne, I knew he wanted Cool Girl, and for him, I'll admit, I was willing to try. I wax-stripped my pussy raw. I drank canned beer watching Adam Sandler movies. I ate cold pizza and remained a size 2. I blew him, semi-regularly. I lived in the moment. I was fucking game. I can't say I didn't enjoy some of it. Nick teased out in me things I didn't know existed. A lightness. A humor. An ease. But I made him stronger, sharper. I inspired him to rise to my level. I forged the man of my dreams. We were happy pretending to be other people; we were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally, then he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier Cool Girl. You think I'd let him destroy me and end up happier than ever? No fucking way. He doesn't get to win."

"Amazing fucking Amy is getting fucking married!"

"Tyler Perry - Tanner Bolt"

"I'm so much happier now that I'm dead. Technically missing. Soon to be presumed dead. Gone. And my lazy lying shitting oblivious husband will go to prison for my murder. Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder. Let the punishment fit the crime."

"Ted Kotcheff - Marty Peretz"

"Luke Kirby - Rob Gruen"

"Cas Anvar - Kambiz Foroohar"

"Jamie Elman - Aaron Bluth"

"Mark Blum - Lewis Estridge"

"Simone-Élise Girard - Catarina Bannier"

"Linda E. Smith - Gloria"

"Chad Donella - David Bach"

"Rosario Dawson - Andy Fox"

"Melanie Lynskey - Amy Brand"

"Chloë Sevigny - Caitlin Avey"

"Hank Azaria - Michael Kelly"

"Steve Zahn - Adam Penenberg"

"There are 16,800 magazines in this country, but only one calls itself the inflight magazine for Air Force One. That's the thrill of working at The New Republic. You're underpaid, the hours are brutal, but what you write gets read by people who matter: Presidents, lawmakers. Your work can actually influence public policy. That's an amazing privilege and a huge responsibility."

"Read between the lies."

"The story that shocked a nation."

"There's so many show-offs in journalism, so many braggarts and jerks. They're always selling, always working the room, always trying to make themselves look hotter than they actually are. The good news is, reporters like that make it easy to distinguish yourself. If you're even a little humble and a little self-effacing, you stand out."

"Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass"

"Peter Sarsgaard - Charles Lane"

"He'd do anything to get a great story."

"It's true, journalism is hard work. Everyone is under pressure, everyone's grinding to get the issue out. No one is getting enough sleep. But you are allowed to smile. Even Woodward and Bernstein went out for a burger every once in a while. And they won a Pulitzer. Some reporters think that it's political content that makes a story. I think it's the people — their quirks, their flaws, what makes them funny, what makes them human. Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior. You have to know who you're writing for, you have to know what you're good at. I record what people do. I find out what moves them, what scares them, and I write that down. That way, they're the ones who are telling the story. And, you know what? Those kinds of pieces can win Pulitzers too."

"The New Republic, snobbiest rag in the business, the in-flight magazine of Air Force One... and their star goes out and gets completely snowed by a bunch of hackers. I mean, God couldn't have written this any better."

"Mary Steenburgen as Elaine Stein"

"David Oyelowo as Preacher Green"

"Nelsan Ellis as Henry"

"Brian Kerwin as Robert Phelan"

"Aunjanue Ellis as Yule May Davis"

"Sissy Spacek as Mrs. Walters"

"Joshua A. Downes as Mr. Blackly"

"Dana Ivey as Grace Higginbotham"

"Mike Vogel as Johnny Foote"

"Ashley Johnson as Mary Beth Cadwell"

"Ahna O'Reilly as Elizabeth Leefolt"

"Jessica Chastain as Celia Foote"