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Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, comic book writer and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Flynn's three published novels are the thrillers Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl, the last of which she adapted for the screen in the 2014 film of the same name directed by David Fincher.

✵ 24. February 1971
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Famous Gillian Flynn Quotes

“Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Variant: The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
Source: Gone Girl

“I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phraseSometimes women do.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“I’ve suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn Quotes about love

“Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I’m tired of not knowing who I’ll be with, or if I’ll be
with anyone.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn Quotes about people

“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.”

Gillian Flynn

Source: The Grownup

“It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn: Trending quotes

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn Quotes

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“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 book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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.)”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“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 book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“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 book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“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 book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Safer to be feared than loved.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“… and 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 book Gone Girl

Variant: 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.
Source: Gone Girl

“I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood. It was kind of romantic. Catastrophically romantic.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.)”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool?”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figure it out for yourself because everyone’s overworked and understaffed.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know their husbands.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“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 book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge?”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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 book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“Coffee goes great with sudden death.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

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