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Gillian Flynn Quotes

Total quotes: 70
“Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl: A Novel
Tagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, Moments, Life, Childhood, Feelings, Examples of Similes
“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Women, Blood, cleaning, tampons
“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”
— Gillian Flynn, The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl
Tagged: Books, Sex, Work
“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: angry, Sad, Happy, Feelings, emotions
“Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: Relationships, Failure, Breakups
“It seemed like a joke, how much all of these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just erased your features, rubbed out anything distinctive.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: similarities, looks, appearances
“The phrase 'fuck you' may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: Words, Anger, fuck off
“The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Lies, Relationships, Dating
“I hate people who start conversations with facts - what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: Communication, social life, Facts
“One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Marriage, husbands, Love
“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 with fangs.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: Soul, Unhappy, creepy
“I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s because you’ve ripped a hole in your skin.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Horror
“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 an endless Automat of characters.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Individuality, Self-Love
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: mean, Sin, creepy
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Life, humanity, Communication
“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Tears, Pain, unconscious
“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.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: talking, Silence, Words
“It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: humanity, Personality, Life
“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Dating, Love, Lust
“You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Drinking, Life, Fine
“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: Flaws, humanity, Evil, Cruelty
“You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Marriage, Disappointment, husbands, wives
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Death, Life, creepy
“There’s a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Love, Loving People, Read Love, Idea of Love
“What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?”
— Amy Dunne, Gone Girl
Tagged: Dating, Relationships, The Other
“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Suffering
“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 it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: mother, Children, Decisions, Choices
“Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: meanness, Life
“There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: only children, Disappointment, Death
“It’s a very female thing, isn’t it, to take one boys’ night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Women, Marriage, Divorce
“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone. She fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Sad, upset, angry, Feelings, emotions, Tears
“I didn't stop giving hand jobs because I wasn't good at it, I stopped giving hand jobs because I was great at it.”
— Gillian Flynn, The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl
Tagged: first lines of books
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: manipulation, People, Personality
“I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: liquor, Drinking, Protection
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: Night, Morning, pretending, Feelings
“She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: friendly, Personality, social life
“Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.”
— Gillian Flynn, The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl
Tagged: Money, rich, Sadness, Greed
“People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.”
— Gillian Flynn, The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl
Tagged: humanity, stupidity, Life
“I'm the bitch who makes you a man.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: power of pussy, Bitch, Men, Women
“I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.”
— Gillian Flynn, The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl
Tagged: Education, Intelligence, College
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