“For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men - friends, coworkers, strangers - giddy over these awful… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“He's calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That's what men do: they try to make it sound like you are… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“How do you know you're not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: 'I like strong women.' If he says that to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“That night at the Brooklyn party, I was playing the girl who was in style, the girl a man like Nick wants:… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“For Gone Girl, I knew Nick and Amy had to be very believable, so I made ipod playlists for them, and knew… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose. You don’t get what you want.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays… — 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