Gillian Flynn Quotes

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you’re really doing it to them, Amma said, pulling another Blow Pop from her pocket.

But I don’t understand the point of being together if you’re not the happiest.

I’m not sure what all the fuss is about. But we are working backward: dinner first, then drinks in one of the little nooks Campbell has reserved, a mini-closet where you can lounge expensively in a pl...

She tried to speak; her mouth opened, once, twice, silent, a mermaid washed ashore.

There was just me, left wretched in my childhood bed.

It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.

It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as to my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp wash...

It wasn’t that I truly felt bad that I’d upset my mother—it was more that I hated any debits in her column.

Sometimes the answer is at the bottom of a bottle,

Sometimes when you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

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.

The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious lust, to wall themselves away from sticky emotion....

People whispered comfort about Marian being called back to heaven, but my mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby.

The fact is, my wife is a murderess who is sometimes really fun.

We are all working from the same dog-eared script. 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...

It's so strange to think: A year ago today, I was undoing my husband. Now I am almost done reassembling him.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted

It's easy to like pregnant women-they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to s...

I’m not good at things like that: haircuts or oil changes or dentist visits. When I moved into my bungalow, I spent the first three months swaddled in blankets because I couldn’t deal with getting the...

Right now, she had an almost obsessive need to get home, nest up, feel safe.