All Gillian Flynn Quotes
- What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy… All
- Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed. All
- There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold. Cold
- The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you. Face
- It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from… Actual
- There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. Difference
- Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. Cat
- Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are. Better
- My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing… All
- I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble… Adult
- Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit. Awful
- I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of… Basement
- People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. Been
- Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my… Bullshit
- It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked. Funny
- People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges. Broken
- I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more… Basically Turned
- She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you. Anyone
- Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that… Every Relationship
- Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life.… All