Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Right, Annabelle,” Jackie said. “I’m sure if Joya were alive today, they’d have a grand old time. At least Joya would. She’d… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The first time my mom read my very first book, she was like, 'I'm not gonna belabor this. It's not a big… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“her bona fide name is Jennifer, but people don’t believe Jennifers can tell the future; Jennifers can tell you which cute shoes… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Cameras flashed. I turned away and saw spots. It was surreal. That’s what people always say to describe moments that are merely… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“We were the first human beings who would never see anythign for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Three minutes, so I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song—is there ever a time you… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Nick will come home, sweaty and salty and beer-loose from a day at the ballpark, and I’ll curl up in his lap,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined those… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I find, the older I get, the more surprised I am about how hesitant people are to say what they really want,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It was a gross, tasteless thing to say – my brain had been burping up such inappropriate thoughts at inopportune moments. Mental… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the… — 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
“My twin, Go. I've said this phrase so many times, it has become a reassuring mantra instead of actual words: Mytwingo. We… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men - friends, coworkers, strangers - giddy over these awful… — 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
