“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”
Gillian Flynn“I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.”
Gillian Flynn, The Grownup“It was one of the few stories we told the same way.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl“A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.”
Gillian Flynn“Things might not be great, but things would be okay.”
Gillian Flynn“what are you thinking, Amy? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we ddone to each other? What will we do?”
Gillian Flynn“... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile.”
Gillian Flynn, The Grownup“She is an incredibly intelligent idiot”
Gillian Flynn, The Grownup“She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl“Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl“Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.- Camille Preaker”
Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects