This was my eleventh lie.

“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.”

— Gillian Flynn

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

“Sometimes it is all too loud.”

— Gillian Flynn

“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

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

— Gillian Flynn

“My life has begun to feel like an epilogue.”

— Gillian Flynn

“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

“You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It’s finally arrived.”

— Gillian Flynn

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

— Gillian Flynn

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

“you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy”

— Gillian Flynn

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

“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

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

“For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men - friends, coworkers, strangers - giddy over these awful pretender women,…

— Gillian Flynn