Gillian Flynn: Thing

“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”

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

“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so”

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

“To be kissed on the lips by your husband is the most decadent thing.”

“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?”

“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’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?”

“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.”

“And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.”

“One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things.”