“But even as he was thinking this, he knew he’d have to aim smaller. That’s what he learned from his life so… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Really, dude? How do you get through life without breaking something? Your mom wrap you in bubble wrap?” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“And it’s so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine. That fast. You think: Oh, here… — 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… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“January was the season for house robberies and violence. Christmas was over, and the new year just reminded you of how little… — 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined those… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“You are a man. You are an average, lazy, boring, cowardly, woman-fearing man. Without me, that's what you would have kept on… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“They want you attractive but not slutty. For instance, in my real life I wear glasses, but I don’t when I’m in… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“He turns around, and when he sees me standing there, he looks scared. That’s something useful. Because I’m not going to let… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I have never been a nag. I have always been rather proud of my un-nagginess. So it pisses me off, that Nick… — Gillian Flynn 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 Copy Share Image
“We had spent years battling for control of our marriage, of our love story, our life story. I had been thoroughly, finally… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I don’t get why I need to prove my love to you by remembering the exact same things you do, the exact… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with… — 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
