There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“You are better than any storybook, you are better than anything anyone could make up.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my all-time favorite books. I love that it just ends with, you know, 'Hey, the devil's in… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Des, who brought me things I wanted (tulips, wine) to make me do the things he wanted (love him). Nick just wanted… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau. Each exposure needed to be more intense… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“My brain is so busy with Nick thoughts, it’s a swarm inside my head: Nicknicknicknicknick! And when I picture his mind, I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters -… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I remember watching a very sensible love expert on TV once. The advice: “Don’t be discouraged—every relationship you have is a failure,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Would you still love me if I killed someone?” I said nothing. My breath was coming too fast. “I would still love… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am fat with love! Husky with ardor! Morbidly obese with devotion! A happy, busy bumblebee of marital enthusiasm. I positively hum… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“He turns around, and when he sees me standing there, he looks scared. That’s something useful. Because I’m not going to let… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The ones who are not soul-mated – the ones who have settled – are even more dismissive of my singleness: It’s not… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Remember that game you always played with Mom when we were little: Would you still love me if? Would you still love… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She'd parade me… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I didn't think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn't worry about how… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The Amy of today was abrasive enough to want to hurt, sometimes. I speak specifically of the Amy of today, who was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Books and movies are kind of my two great loves. I don't have too many other actual hobbies. That's pretty much it. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I love a good worst-case scenario. My brain just kind of works that way. I like that idea of how much a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villain. She's a not-nice person in a believable… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“My thank-yous always come out rather labored. I often don't give them at all. People do what they're supposed to do and then wait… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“Given my druthers now, I’d prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding’s wife, “the Duchess,” who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men - friends, coworkers, strangers - giddy over these awful pretender women,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
![“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his…” quote by Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/02a/gillian-flynn-316_abuse_my-father-was-a-mid-level-phonecompany-m_2788017.jpg)
