Gillian Flynn: Trending quotes

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

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

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

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

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”

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

“I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.”

“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.)”

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