Gillian Flynn: Quotes about love

Gillian Flynn is American author and critic. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“Safer to be feared than loved.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

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

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“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 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

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

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

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

Gillian Flynn

“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“I loved being scared as a kid. I loved the darker side of humanity. That was in my brain, even from a very early age. I was always thinking, “What could be the scariest outcome of this situation?””

Gillian Flynn

My cousins and I were kind of raised in a pack together—all girls. They always wanted to be princesses. I always wanted to be a witch. Or a killer. My head just went in that direction. Maybe because my father was a film professor, I developed a taste for Alfred Hitchcock. Films like Psycho scared me just the right amount. They didn’t haunt my dreams in a terrible way. I like that sensation of being scared. I’ve always been one of those people who wants to know what’s underneath the rock, what’s down the corner, what’s down the blind alley.<br><br>On processing fear as a child in “GILLIAN FLYNN BRINGS HER MID-WESTERN NOIR TO A BOIL” https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/gillian-flynn-brings-her-mid-western-noir-to-a-boil-in-widows in Interview (2018 Nov 12)