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Gillian Flynn QUOTES

Gillian Flynn QUOTES

121 " He has a great smile, a cat's smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me. "

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl

122 " Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. "

― Gillian Flynn , Dark Places

123 " Committing to Nick, feeling safe with Nick, being happy with Nick, made me realize that there was a Real Amy in there, and she was so much better, more interesting and complicated and challenging, than Cool Amy. Nick wanted Cool Amy anyway. Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that’s how the hating first began. I’ve thought about this a lot, and that’s where it started, I think. "

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl

124 " I'm tired of dying. "

― Gillian Flynn , Sharp Objects

125 " I’ve suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year. "

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl

126 " I'm like that, nothing sticks. "

― Gillian Flynn , Dark Places

127 " Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. "

― Gillian Flynn , Sharp Objects

128 " I got it, Go said. Go home, fuck her brains out, then smack her with your penis and scream, There's some wood for you bitch! "

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl

129 " When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself—it’s a hobby today, but at age fourteen it was a vocation. On a September morning, just after school started, I’d gotten Diane’s .44 Magnum and held it, babylike, in my lap for hours. What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart. But I thought about Diane, and her coming home to my small torso and a red wall, and I couldn’t do it. It’s probably why I was so hateful to her, she kept me from what I wanted the most. "

― Gillian Flynn , Dark Places

130 " He's calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That's what men do: they try to make it sound like you are the cool girl so you will bow to their wishes. Like a car salesman saying, how much do you want to pay for this beauty? When you didn't agree to buy it yet. "

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl

131 " 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 , Gone Girl

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

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl

133 " It sounded artificial, like a beauty pageant contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me. "

― Gillian Flynn , Sharp Objects

134 " If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears. "

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl

135 " 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. "

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl

136 " It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked it or I didn’t. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog. "

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl

137 " Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. "

― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl

138 " She’d always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn’t want it. "

― Gillian Flynn , Sharp Objects

139 " 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 , Dark Places

140 " Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment—at least one moment—when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name? "

― Gillian Flynn , Dark Places