"Fine! I'm gone!! (he YOU WANTED ME GONE, I'M GONE!!!!! AND BY THE TIME YOU FIGURE OUT YOU WERE OVERREACTING IT'LL BE TOO FUCKING LATE!!!!!!!!!!!! (He snatches the cell phone off the dirty floor he flings it open SLAM!!! goes to door)"

"Marco Cocci - Alberto"

"And go where?"

"We're having a baby!"

"Vittorio Amandola - Mimmo"

"Piero Natoli - Michele"

"Carmen Consoli - lover of Alberto"

"What the fuck are you doing?!? Put that down, you're not going to stab me!!"

"Giovanna Mezzogiorno - Giulia"

"One kiss. It won't happen again."

"I didn't sleep with her!"

"Nothing happened!!!"

"Just a kiss"

"It's him! You want to ask him? Ask him!!!"

"I didn't do anything wrong."

"...Several times."

"It will never happen again."

"We didn't have sex, I swear! It was a mistake and I'm sorry and we still have a life together; we're going to be a family!"

"Love. Sex. Surrender."

"Amazing fucking Amy is getting fucking married!"

"When two people love each other and they can't make that work, that's the real tragedy."

"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."

"Want to test your marriage for weak spots? Add one recession, subtract two jobs. It's surprisingly effective."

"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."

"[Opening lines] When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, trying to get answers. The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other?"

"[Last lines]What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?"

"My cute, charming, salt-of-the-earth Missouri guy. He needed to learn. Grown ups work for things. Grown ups pay. Grown ups suffer consequences."

"Everyone knows that 'complicated' is a code word for bitch."

"[to Amy] You. Fucking. Bitch."

"Elvis is in Missouri!"

"(To Nick) Boo hoo ! I lost my job. Guess I'll fuck a teenager."

"Tyler Perry - Tanner Bolt"

"I thought writers hated cliches."

"I swear, you two are the most fucked up people I've ever known and I specialize in fucked up!"

"Carrie Coon - Margo Dunne"

"Rosamund Pike — Amy Dunne"

"Neil Patrick Harris — Desi Collins"

"Ben Affleck — Nick Dunne"

"Mea Vulva, Mea Maxima Vulva!"

"Charlotte Gainsbourg – Joe (ages 35–50)"

"Stellan Skarsgård – Seligman"

"I was eighteen when I got married, but it was not love."

"That's not how this goes. Most people don't scream until I hit them."

"I am not ashamed of who I am or what I've done. Are you ashamed for me?"

"All I know is that I sent him away, and it's as if I'd shot myself through the heart."

"[to her children, referring to Joe's bedroom] Let's go see daddy's favorite place! C'mon boys! Ooh, so this is were it all happened!"

"Well, if three is a crowd, then seven must be a bit of a challenge for the pretty miss. I must say I have a hard time picturing her enjoying loneliness."

"Whatever? It must be hard, when you've got everything, to know what to say!"