Gillian Flynn: Doing

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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

“Do you understand this is serious?"

"I understand you think it's serious.”