“Jackie, shut up,” Annabelle said, and threw a roll, hard, at Jackie’s face. It bounced off her nose and thumped onto the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“He needed no foreplay for the interview, and I was grateful. It's like sweet-talking your date when you both know you're about… — Gillian Flynn Interview Copy Share Image
“...I am stuck here on earth, and every day is a chance to be less than perfect.” — Gillian Flynn Chance Copy Share Image
I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like… — Gillian Flynn Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I was the girl who battles oblivion and won. The chances were about 1 percent, but I did it.” — Gillian Flynn Oblivion Copy Share Image
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Right now, she had an almost obsessive need to get home, nest up, feel safe.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen. — 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… — Gillian Flynn Character Copy Share Image
Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“People do what they’re supposed to do and then wait for you to pile on the appreciation—they’re like frozen-yogurt employees who put… — Gillian Flynn Appreciation Copy Share Image
I've never been interested in watching or reading anything because it's the hero's story. I don't feel the need to be inspired… — Gillian Flynn Character Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to… — Gillian Flynn Depression 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… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. Because isn't that the point of every relationship:… — Gillian Flynn Friendships Copy Share Image
“I sat in a room the color of egg yolk for two hours while the officer got my story down. The whole… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The Amy of today was abrasive enough to want to hurt, sometimes. I speak specifically of the Amy of today, who was… — 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 Love Copy Share Image
“I remember at one point starting a goofy story about a childhood field trip here, and I saw her eyes go blank,… — Gillian Flynn Children 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 Mother Copy Share Image
“For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men - friends, coworkers, strangers - giddy over these awful… — Gillian Flynn Cool girl Copy Share Image
“I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I cant help it, it's what I've always done:… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to… — Gillian Flynn Abuse Copy Share Image
“You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men… — Gillian Flynn Dating Copy Share Image
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the… — Gillian Flynn Antiheroes Copy Share Image
Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It was a compliment to Nick—C was the correct answer—but he just gave a sour smile when I showed” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“My penis lay pathetically along my left thigh, like some small animal washed ashore.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' — Gillian Flynn Book Copy Share Image
“Amy's story could have gone a million other ways, but she met me, and bad things happened.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Nick’s the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn’t mind if you puke in… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“She had an unnecessarily loud voice, a bit of a bray, like some enchanted, hot donkey.” — 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 is learning to love me unconditionally, under all my conditions. I think we are finally on our way to happiness. I… — Gillian Flynn Happiness Copy Share Image
“It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time.” — Gillian Flynn Laugh Copy Share Image
