“That easy, huh?” “You just have to decide to do it and then do it,” she said. “Discipline. Follow through. Like anything.” — Gillian Flynn Discipline Copy Share Image
“Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it,” — Gillian Flynn Children Copy Share Image
“If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a very Merry Christmas,” — Gillian Flynn Candies Copy Share Image
I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“As we move forward with the investigation, we can only hope that Amy comes back to us. Her story must continue. The… — Gillian Flynn Move forward Copy Share Image
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes. — Gillian Flynn Clothes Copy Share Image
“He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.)” — 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 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
“Because I realized I'd be stuck doing all the hard stuff," she reasoned. "All the diapers and doctors' appointments and discipline, and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“No.” I folded in on myself, ignoring my meal, projecting glumness. That was another of my mom’s words: glum. It meant having… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked… — Gillian Flynn Books Copy Share Image
“I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it.… — Gillian Flynn Confident Copy Share Image
“he's always been moody. Even when he was a baby he was like a cat. All snuggly one second and then the… — Gillian Flynn Moody Copy Share Image
There's a book by Anne Rivers Siddons called 'The House Next Door' that I just think is one of the all-time great… — Gillian Flynn Books Copy Share Image
“But I do like a certain standard of living—I think it’s fair to say the garbage shouldn’t literally overflow, and the plates… — Gillian Flynn Roommate Copy Share Image
“Every phrase had to be captured on paper or it wasn't real, it slipped away. I'd see the words hanging in midair--Camille,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“They’re baffled by my singleness. A smart, pretty, nice girl like me, a girl with so many interests and enthusiasms, a cool… — Gillian Flynn Loving family 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 Baby Copy Share Image
“Dorothy has one of those kitten-in-a-tree posters-- Hang in There! She posts her poster with all sincerity. I like to picture her… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as to my newfound loveliness.… — Gillian Flynn Cutter Copy Share Image
“You both find the exact same things worth remembering. You have the same rhythm. Click. You just know each other. All of… — Gillian Flynn Remembering Copy Share Image
There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold. — Gillian Flynn Cold Copy Share Image
“Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.” — Gillian Flynn Sociopath Copy Share Image
“Amma and I were sick just like Marian. It had to be made that obvious to me before I finally understood—nearly twenty… — Gillian Flynn Marian Copy Share Image
“Jag äter chokladkakor och flyter i timmar omkring i poolen i solskenet, så att kloret i vattnet gör mitt skinn gummiartat som… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what… — Gillian Flynn Feminism Copy Share Image
Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I had my share of fun,' I said. 'Looks and money get you a long way in Wind Gap.' 'And brains?' 'Brains… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It is a January party, definitely, everyone still glutted and sugar-pissed from the holidays, lazy and irritated simultaneously.” — Gillian Flynn Holiday Copy Share Image
People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't… — Gillian Flynn Lips Copy Share Image
“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.” — Gillian Flynn Time Copy Share Image
“He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Hell, at this point, I can’t imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“If he knew I was doing a year from now already, he’d run and I’d be obliged to cheer him on.)” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It is one of those big-smelling days, when people bring the outdoors in with them, the scent of rain on their sleeves,… — Gillian Flynn Rain Copy Share Image
“The climax is when you are taught the lesson that Punch never learns, and you are caught and charged with murder.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.” — Gillian Flynn Angry Copy Share Image
