“Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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 don’t think my father’s issue was with my mother in particular. He just didn’t like women. He thought they were stupid,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad… — 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
“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
“The kid looked at me as if I’d just told a joke about his mother. ‘I don’t know, Mr Dunne, I’m sure… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“But I felt it now. Something was wrong, right here, very horribly wrong. I could picture Bob Nash sitting on the edge… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I thought being home might do you good, but … I forget sometimes parents aren’t always … good for their kids.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I have one memory that catches in me like a nasty clump of blood. Marian was dead about two years, and my… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then… — 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
“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
