Gillian Flynn: Quotes about people

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

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“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“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

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

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

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

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

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

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

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

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“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.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

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

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

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

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

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.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

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

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

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.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

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

Source: The Grownup