“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
“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The ones who are not soul-mated – the ones who have settled – are even more dismissive of my singleness: It’s not… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Books and movies are kind of my two great loves. I don't have too many other actual hobbies. That's pretty much it. — 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 Copy Share Image
“I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villain. She's a not-nice person in a believable… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I love a good worst-case scenario. My brain just kind of works that way. I like that idea of how much a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Would you still love me if I killed someone?” I said nothing. My breath was coming too fast. “I would still love… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours.… — Gillian Flynn 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 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
“You stopped loving me. We're a sick, fucking toxic Möbius strip, Amy. We weren't ourselves when we fell in love, and when… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“You are better than any storybook, you are better than anything anyone could make up.” — 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
“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau. Each exposure needed to be more intense… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic… — 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
Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the… — 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
