“ Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'. Gillian Flynn
“ Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic. Gillian Flynn
“ They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic… Gillian Flynn
“ I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brai… Gillian Flynn
“ The mind is like an empty canvas and we are all artists, who spend our entire lives creating our own unique masterpieces. Jason Medina
“ She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost. Richard Powers
