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title: "4 Thinking Amy Quotes By Gillian Flynn"
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> [“I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/i-think-of-that-too-her-mind-her-brain-all-those-coils-and-her/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

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> [“She had what the Victorians would call a finely shaped head . You could imagine the skull quite easily. I'd know her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/she-had-what-the-victorians-would-call-a-finely-shaped-head-you-could/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

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> [“What are you thinking, Amy? The question I’ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/what-are-you-thinking-amy-the-question-i-ve-asked-most-often-during/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

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> [“I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/i-think-of-that-too-her-mind-her-brain-all-those-coils-and-her-2/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

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## More by Gillian Flynn

> [“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/our-kind-of-love-can-go-into-remission-but-it-s-always-waiting-to/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/the-midwest-is-great-because-it-hasn-t-been-entirely-claimed-there-s/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [“Sometimes it is all too loud.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/sometimes-it-is-all-too-loud/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/my-thank-yous-always-come-out-rather-labored-i-often-don-t-give-them/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/there-s-something-disturbing-about-recalling-a-warm-memory-and/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [“My life has begun to feel like an epilogue.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/my-life-has-begun-to-feel-like-an-epilogue/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [“The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/the-victorians-especially-southern-victorians-needed-a-lot-of-room-to/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [“You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It’s finally arrived.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/you-think-oh-here-is-the-rest-of-my-life-it-s-finally-arrived/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/what-a-generous-thing-that-is-i-realize-for-a-husband-to-try-to-make/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/i-am-a-great-believer-in-jobs-for-teens-they-teach-important-life/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [“you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/you-d-literally-lie-cheat-and-steal-hell-kill-to-convince-people-you/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/my-imagination-is-more-tweaked-by-imagining-the-lives-of-the-people/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [“Given my druthers now, I’d prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding’s wife, “the Duchess,” who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/given-my-druthers-now-i-d-prefer-a-snapshot-of-warren-harding-s-wife/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/a-town-so-suffocating-and-small-you-tripped-over-people-you-hated/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

> [“For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men - friends, coworkers, strangers - giddy over these awful pretender women,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/for-a-long-time-cool-girl-offended-me-i-used-to-see-men-friends/)

[Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/)

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