“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.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The good stuff in me I got from my mom. I can joke, I can laugh, I can tease, I can celebrate… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad… — 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
“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I don’t think my father’s issue was with my mother in particular. He just didn’t like women. He thought they were stupid,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I have one memory that catches in me like a nasty clump of blood. Marian was dead about two years, and my… — 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
“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)
