Gillian Flynn Quotes

He killed my soul, which should be a crime. Actually, it is a crime. According to me, at least.

It's not stand by your man anymore, it's divorce the fucker.

My feelings for her were veering too quickly from bitter to sweet.

Sometimes when you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

but it seems like part of your heart can never work if you don't have kids. Like it will always be shut off.

She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia.

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

Sixty seconds is a long time to know you are dying.

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.

He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain.

He was verbally poking a bruise.

It is dangerous to laugh at your spouse.

Inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship. So

And then I knew I didn't love Amy anymore

I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage.

Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God.

Unremarkable, but with a brainy arrogance wafting from them.

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

Well, a little girl is more likely to trust a person who reminds her of her momma, right? Depends on what her momma's like, I thought.

The day after Independence Day, the sulfur from the fireworks mingling with the ocean salt - summer.

Because everyone loves the Dead Girl.

That easy, huh?" "You just have to decide to do it and then do it," she said. "Discipline. Follow through. Like anything.

He needed no foreplay for the interview, and I was grateful. It's like sweet-talking your date when you both know you're about to get laid.

Imagine the awful satisfaction, to know that all those years of worry had paid off.

Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.

The world will always want a drink.

tomboy. I'm actually

teeth coming down on the tip of my

People judge. Fast

Shotgun blasts in a small hallway. The panicked, jaybird cries of my mother, still trying to save her kids with half her head gone.

I might as well have said dot dot dot aloud.

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

she day-dreamed about dying.

Don't women think that all men are jerky twelve-year-olds at heart?" "Hey, if the heart fits.

When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.

Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they're easily offended.

Save Gas, Fart in a Jar.

The house was like something from a catalog, and there were two BMWs in the driveway and these were not people who

If you were chopping up hookers or eating runaways, you'd try to look normal.

Ska," I said, swerving toward delirious laughter. "Great.

Sometimes you need to get lost for a little.

I really wanted the book to make money, in an obsessive childish way - that feeling that if I wanted it enough, it should happen. It should happen.

Instead, she'd let it get even more overgrown and cobwebbed. We'd always joked that it would be a good place to bury a body. It couldn't be.

Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.

I am absolutely, one hundred percent sincere right now- I have your back, and I won't fuck with you.

If he knew I was doing a year from now already, he'd run and I'd be obliged to cheer him on.)

It was my fifth lie to the police. I was just starting.

Do you understand this is serious?"
"I understand you think it's serious.

My mother said she was the most popular girl in school, and I believed it. Jackie said she was the meanest, and I believed that, too.

I will find you, Amy.
Lovesick words, hateful intentions.

He'd have to work to make me comfortable here, and he doesn't want to do that. He wants to enjoy himself.

I spoke in a soft, soothing voice, a voice wearing a cardigan.

...I am stuck here on earth, and every day is a chance to be less than perfect.

soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags.

serve as the Find Amy Dunne

Everyone has a moment when life goes off the rails.

He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.

You have to admit you're a jerk and that everything was all your fault." "So, like, what men are supposed to do in general," I said.

What does an administrative assistant do? I wondered.

Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber.

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.

Everyone has their own version of a memory,

Good catch," Tanner said. "Next time do it before it comes out of your mouth.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry.

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating.

Just got to keep on keeping on

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

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

Complicated custody arrangement) furrowing his brow as we pass a Love

Everywhere I go is the river. I'm following it or it's following me. I know, suddenly, what I must do.
Meredith

I have a face you want to punch:

That would be our luck.

A town so small, you tripped over people you hated every day.

It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time.

this town is sometimes too much, so desperate and so in denial.

I had no sympathy for drama queens.

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

... it's a nice day's work when you make a lot of people smile.

She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me.

I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

And then the strangest thought of all clattered drunkenly from the back of my brain to the front and blinded me: If I kill Amy, who will I be?

And before he leans in, he brushes the sugar from my lips so he can taste me.

I'm tired of dying.

can feel a better version of me somewhere

The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue.

Always have a backup plan to the backup plan.

There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can't stop them? You can't do anything, you just have to wait?

Ninety degrees but the heat made me feel safe, like walking under water.

He promised to take care of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse.

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

Mama Mo does not insist. She simply makes things a reality by assuming they are such:

The waitress, a plain brunette disguised as a pretty brunette...

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?

I finally understood - nearly twenty years too late.