“I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s because you’ve ripped a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy. — Gillian Flynn Conspiracy Copy Share Image
“You are better than any storybook, you are better than anything anyone could make up.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It’s a very female thing, isn’t it, to take one boys’ night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy… — Gillian Flynn Infidelity Copy Share Image
You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“All the tut-tutters out there will say: She should have just left, bundled up what remained of her dignity. Take the high… — Gillian Flynn High road 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 Brain Copy Share Image
“I think, immediately, that there is something wrong with us, perhaps unfixable, if my husband wouldn't think to tell me this. Sometimes… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“My body was heading into a flare. I paced a bit, tried to remember how to breathe right, how to calm my… — Gillian Flynn Scars Copy Share Image
“I have a dash of ADD, and I’ve always found my wife a bit dazzling, in the purest sense of the word:… — Gillian Flynn Clear vision Copy Share Image
“Who would I be without Amy to react to? Because she was right: As a man, I had been my most impressive… — Gillian Flynn Best self Copy Share Image
“(The one thing I suspected about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy—he had the patience and optimism of someone… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an… — Gillian Flynn Book Copy Share Image
“Camille?" Her voice quiet and girlish and unsure. "You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't,… — Gillian Flynn Tingling 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 Adventure Copy Share Image
For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“And then you run into Nick Dunne on the Seventh Avenue as you're buying diced cantaloupe, and pow, you are known, you… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American… — Gillian Flynn Alcohol Copy Share Image
“You know how, in court, they talk about the CSI effect? Like, everyone on the jury has watched so much CSI that… — Gillian Flynn Bad guy Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood?” — Gillian Flynn Relationship Copy Share Image
Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the… — Gillian Flynn Aggression Copy Share Image
“I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Audrey Hepburn’s cat was named Cat.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Women are crazy.” Go didn’t consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.” — Gillian Flynn Art Copy Share Image
“I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don’t feel real anymore. I feel… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.” — 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 can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. — 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 Better man Copy Share Image
“Well, rich people need stuff to buy, and socks are probably as good as anything.” — Gillian Flynn Money Copy Share Image
What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh. — Gillian Flynn Generous Copy Share Image
Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person. — Gillian Flynn Life Copy Share Image
I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
