“I thought being home might do you good, but … I forget sometimes parents aren’t always … good for their kids.” — 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 parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab… — 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
“Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“There’s something disturbing about not even bothering with a name. Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their… — 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
“The kid looked at me as if I’d just told a joke about his mother. ‘I don’t know, Mr Dunne, I’m sure… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“But I felt it now. Something was wrong, right here, very horribly wrong. I could picture Bob Nash sitting on the edge… — 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)
