Quotes About Twist

Just when you think you've got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you glued to the book.

There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life--life's experiences--are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never knew one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But

would like to chop you up into small, manageable pieces and grill you on a hibachi, then feed you to my shar-pei. But all that comes out is Welcome to moviefone!

They would twist their bodies for a moment and groan, and sleep the dead sleep once more...

all nations twist history and cleanse their heroes in order to express an ideal to live up to.

Tell your friends I am the last of a dying race,' it said, grinning its sunken grin as it staggered and lurched down the proch steps after her. 'The only survivor of a dying planet. I have come to rob all the women...rape all the men...and learn to do the Peppermint Twist!

This is just your unwritten life. You didn't expect it, it just happened.

Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

The author and screenwriter William Goldman says that "the key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not in the way it expects.

This was wrong. She was undead. He was married. His

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

No matter how innocent the story being relayed to me is, I can twist it into something pretty damn frightening. I've learned the real trick is not sharing these versions with those relaying the story. It tends to make people avoid me.

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Some of the scariest movies I've seen are not considered horror movies, like 'Gone Girl.' That movie scared me. I can't watch it again.

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and we all laugh. That's generally how, just mechanically - super-distilled - comedy works.

The coils of a serpent are even more complex than the burrows of a molehill.

It was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife.

Amy's story could have gone a million other ways, but she met me, and bad things happened.

occurred! Amy was shot! But then I realized

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Gillian Flynn

The Woman in White.