What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Committing to Nick, feeling safe with Nick, being happy with Nick, made me realize that there was a Real Amy in there,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It’s a very female thing, isn’t it, to take one boys’ night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am fat with love! Husky with ardor! Morbidly obese with devotion! A happy, busy bumblebee of marital enthusiasm. I positively hum… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Marriage is compromise and hard work,and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“To be kissed on the lips by your husband is the most decadent thing.” — 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 was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
In marriage, it's best to keep perspective. Get out of your head and get some perspective. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“He had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I woke up on my sister's couch with a raging hangover and an urge to kill my wife.” — 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 think, immediately, that there is something wrong with us, perhaps unfixable, if my husband wouldn't think to tell me this. Sometimes… — 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