Gillian Flynn Quotes

She's a good girl (for a cunt).

Amma and I were sick just like Marian. It had to be made that obvious to me before I finally understood—nearly twenty years too late.

She hummed to herself because she was an unrivaled botcher of lyrics. When we were first dating, a Genesis song came on the radio: She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah. And Amy crooned instead,...

She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did.

This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publishing world—throw some kibble at it, watch it dance on its little leash, oh quite cute, it definitely won’t kil...

This morning he was stroking my hair and asking what else he could do for me, and I said: My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?He was supposed to say: YOU DESERVE IT. I LOVE YOU. But he said,...

Sixty seconds is a long time to know you are dying.

Libby was a Christmas baby, which meant she never got the right amount of presents. Patty would hold one extra gift aside—and Happy Birthday to Libby!—but they all knew the truth, Libby got ripped off...

Ska, I said, swerving toward delirious laughter. Great.

The truth is malleable; you just need to pick the right expert.

The women who came in groups, they were frivolous, fancy, boozy, ready to have fun. The ones who came alone, though, they wanted to believe. They were desperate, and they didn’t have good enough insur...

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra.

This man might kill me.

So all these extras, they’re just bonus fuck-yous. Amusing booby traps. I love that I am a woman with booby traps.

So, are there any asshole guys here I can start dating? she says. That’s my, like, pattern. Run away from one, bump into the next.

They would not be good for marital advice: They are soul mates, remember? They are all peaks, no valleys – a single, infinite burst of marital ecstasy. I can’t tell them I am screwing up the one thing...

Things may not be great, but things will be okay.

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.

So I know I am right not to settle, but it doesn't make me feel better as my friends pair off and I stay home on Friday night with a bottle of wine and make myself an extravagant meal and tell myself,...

Think about it, Nick,we know each other. Better than anyone in the world now.’It was true that I’d had this feeling too, in the past month, when Iwasn’t wishing Amy harm. It would come to me at strang...