Gillian Flynn Quotes page 2

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

Source: Dark Places

“Sometimes it is all too loud.”

Source: Dark Places

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

Source: Sharp Objects

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

Source: Gone Girl

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

Source: Sharp Objects

“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.”

Source: Gone Girl

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

Source: Gone Girl

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

Source: Dark Places

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

Source: Gone Girl

“Daydreams can be dangerous.”

Source: Dark Places

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

Source: Sharp Objects

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

Source: Sharp Objects

“Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite”

Source: Sharp Objects

“I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.”

Source: Gone Girl

“I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second.”

Source: Gone Girl

“A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.”

Source: Gone Girl

“I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.”

Source: Sharp Objects

“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.”

Source: Gone Girl

“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?”

Source: Gone Girl

“I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. 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?”

Source: Gone Girl

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.”

Source: Gone Girl

“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”

Source: Dark Places

“I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”

Source: Sharp Objects

“Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.”

Source: Sharp Objects

“He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am.”

Source: Gone Girl

“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”

Source: Gone Girl

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.”

Source: Gone Girl

“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”

Source: Gone Girl

“And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be, I find offensive.”

Source: Sharp Objects

“Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco.”

Source: Sharp Objects

“Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.”

Source: Gone Girl

“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.”

Source: Dark Places

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.”

Source: Sharp Objects

“It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn't.”

Source: Sharp Objects

“I've had the blues for twenty-four years.”

Source: Gone Girl

“Sometimes I feel like Nick has decided on a version of me that doesn't exist.”

Source: Dark Places

“It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked it or I didn’t. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.”

Source: Gone Girl

“I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.”

Source: Gone Girl

“Hell, at this point, I can’t imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.”

Source: Dark Places

“He Giving Treed me out of existence.”

Source: Gone Girl

“She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it.”

Source: Gone Girl

“The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.”

Source: Gone Girl

“She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.”

Source: Dark Places

“You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination.”

Source: Gone Girl

“No one I've loved has ever not had an agenda.”

Source: Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn

“So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.”

Source: Gone Girl

“I'm tired of dying.”

“Do you understand this is serious?"

"I understand you think it's serious.”

Source: Sharp Objects