“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.” — Gillian Flynn Relief Copy Share Image
“One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors.” — Gillian Flynn Humorous Copy Share Image
“It's so strange to think: A year ago today, I was undoing my husband. Now I am almost done reassembling him.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone. — Gillian Flynn Bird Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like Nick has decided on a version of me that doesn't exist.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who… — Gillian Flynn Game Copy Share Image
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past..” — Gillian Flynn Past Copy Share Image
I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal.” — 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 Father Copy Share Image
“Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was… — Gillian Flynn Abuse Copy Share Image
“I suppose it's not a compromise if only one of you considers it such, but that was what our compromises tended to… — Gillian Flynn Compromise Copy Share Image
“The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“You think you know the answer, you’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after… — Gillian Flynn Peace Copy Share Image
“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop… — Gillian Flynn Alcohol Copy Share Image
My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock… — Gillian Flynn Brain Copy Share Image
“I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me… — Gillian Flynn Depressed Copy Share Image
“They want you attractive but not slutty. For instance, in my real life I wear glasses, but I don’t when I’m in… — Gillian Flynn Life Copy Share Image
“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any… — Gillian Flynn Compulsive liar Copy Share Image
“Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first human beings… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Go didn't like grilled cheese; she was scooping peanut butter out of the jar onto saltines. When a commercial break came on,… — 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 Abuse Copy Share Image
“I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn’t ruined. 153… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I… — Gillian Flynn Alcohol Copy Share Image