Gillian Flynn: Trending quotes (page 4)

“If you can't take care of me while I'm alive, you have made me dead anyway.”

“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.”

“This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.”

“There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile, it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.”

“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”

“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.”

“I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.”

“Sometimes it is all too loud.”

“In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.”

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

“See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”

“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”

“I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.”

“I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.”

“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”

“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”

“Daydreams can be dangerous.”

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”

“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”