Gillian Flynn: Quotes about people

“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.”

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

“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”

“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”

“People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know their husbands.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.”

“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.”

“People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.”