“I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I’m too self-conscious otherwise.” — Gillian Flynn Self conscious Copy Share Image
“Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love.… — Gillian Flynn Husbands Copy Share Image
I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across… — Gillian Flynn Betrayal 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
Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a… — Gillian Flynn Hair Copy Share Image
I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter.' Now that I've written a screenplay -… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I don’t know anyone’s name. If one of those women died, I couldn’t even say, “Poor old Mrs. Zalinsky died.” I’d have… — 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 Nine months 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 Children Copy Share Image
“And I think, "I'm so fucking lonely". I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That's not old… — Gillian Flynn Alone Copy Share Image
“I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here.… — Gillian Flynn Comforting words Copy Share Image
“When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself—it’s a hobby today, but at age fourteen it was a vocation.… — Gillian Flynn Coming home Copy Share Image
“Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men… — Gillian Flynn Dating 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 Mother Copy Share Image
“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I could build my days around charity committees and home decoration and gardening and volunteering, and I don't think there's anything wrong… — Gillian Flynn Feminism Copy Share Image
I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The ones we picked? We didn’t call them marks, or prey or victims. We called them Tonys, because my dad was named… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is… — Gillian Flynn Blues Copy Share Image
One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with… — Gillian Flynn Being Copy Share Image
“Against the far wall was a wire cage holding a pack of unblinking bunnies. World’s dumbest pet, I thought. Who would want… — Gillian Flynn Animals 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 Bad idea Copy Share Image
A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think women are very ambidextrous. We don't think twice about reading a book or a movie starring guys. But for guys,… — Gillian Flynn Ambidextrous Copy Share Image
It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality… — Gillian Flynn Character Copy Share Image
“It took this awful situation for us to realize it. Nick and I fit together. I am a little too much, and… — 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. I… — Gillian Flynn Art Copy Share Image
“Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet,… — Gillian Flynn Writer Copy Share Image
I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you… — Gillian Flynn Age Copy Share Image
“I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here.… — Gillian Flynn Comforting words 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 Song Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that,… — Gillian Flynn Exile Copy Share Image
