“She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She'd parade me… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“But in truth, I think she’s always had more problems with children than she’d ever admit. I think, in fact, she hates… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters. — Gillian Flynn 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 Copy Share Image
“For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I remember at one point starting a goofy story about a childhood field trip here, and I saw her eyes go blank,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it,” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“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 Image
What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
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 Image
“you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
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 Image
