" It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless automat of characters. And if all of us are playing-acting there can be no such thing as a soulmate, because we don't have genuine souls.
It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because i'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.
I would have done anything to feel real again "

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl