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Gillian Flynn Quotes

Total quotes: 50
“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 bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you’d never guess from looking at me.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Unsaid Feelings, Unsaid Things, reserved, Concealment, reticent
“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 the simple magic phrase?”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Love, Relationship
“My demons are not remotely tackled.”
— Camille Preaker, Sharp Objects, Season 1: Dirt
Tagged: Demons, Baggage, Suffering From Demons
“I just want things to be nice with us but maybe I just don't know how.”
— Adora Crellin, Sharp Objects, Season 1: Dirt
Tagged: Confused, Nice, Making Amends
“Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Love & Relationships, romance
“If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Sex
“I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Relationships, Dating, Happiness
“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
“You are a cheater. You have failed one of the most basic male tests. You are not a good man.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Cheating, Cheaters, Men
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra ten pounds, the dismissive boss, the conniving sister, the straying husband.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: Personalities, Definitions, mediocrity
“Shouldn't you be home eating ice cream?”
— Camille Preaker, Sharp Objects, Season 1: Dirt
Tagged: ice cream, upset, eating
“He’s doing what you tell him to do because he doesn’t care enough to argue, I think. Your petty demands simply make him feel superior, or resentful, and someday he will fuck his pretty, young coworker who asks nothing of him, and you will actually be shocked.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: arguments, Cheating, resentment
“So I know I am right not to settle, but it doesn’t make me feel better as my friends pair off and I stay home on Friday night with a bottle of wine and make myself an extravagant meal and tell myself, This is perfect, as if I’m the one dating me.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: settle, Dating, Relationships, Single
“My sweater was new, singing red and ugly.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: first lines of books
“Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: creepy, Fear, Horror
“I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row. I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours, eight big hours outside my home, was unfeasible.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: Work, Career, social life
“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: beauty, Women, scorned
“Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women - they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: pregnant, self-righteous, Sex
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Image, Self-Worth, Self-Image, Taking Care of Yourself
“'My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?' 

He was supposed to say: 'You deserve it. I love you.' 

But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.' 

 'Why?' 

 'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: hating yourself, Truth, harsh realities
“Everyone has their own version of a memory.”
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Tagged: Memories, Past, differences
“I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: depressed, Depression, Growing Up
“Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.”
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
Tagged: worries, Stress, Anxiety
“When I think of my wife, I always think of her head.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: first lines of books
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