Quotes by Gillian Flynn

“…I also wanted to make sure no one tried to make her save the cat. To me, Camille is an inherently kind person despite everything that’s happened to her. And you see that when you walk through the ...”

“I think there’s a deep societal fear of female rage, partly because it hasn’t been experienced a lot. Men—I speak in vast generalities—are often very afraid of what they don’t know how to handle. A...”

“It’s incredibly misogynist to tell me I can only write a certain type of woman. Because that’s saying women must be a certain type of person. That puts us back to the Stone Age—like women are saint...”

“I loved being scared as a kid. I loved the darker side of humanity. That was in my brain, even from a very early age. I was always thinking, What could be the scariest outcome of this situation? My...”

“If you are someone who reads books to feel like you have a friend on the page, my book is not going to be the book for you…I write for people who are readers the way I'm a reader. I don't care if I...”

“I am fat with love! Husky with ardor! Morbidly obese with devotion! A happy, busy bumblebee of marital enthusiasm. I positively hum around him, fussing and fixing. I have become a strange thing. I ...”

“Sleep is like a cat: it only comes to you if you ignore it.”

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

“We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Ju...”

“I can see people milling about under the fluorescent lights. It’s the kind of place where people mill about.”

“I’m so much happier now that I’m dead.”

“There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re ...”

“The media has saturated the legal environment. With the Internet, Facebook, YouTube, there’s no such thing as an unbiased jury anymore. No clean slate. Eighty, ninety percent of the case is decided...”

“You can’t be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it’s always waiting to return. Like the world’s sweetest cancer.”

“I don’t want to be married to a woman like you. I want to be married to a normal person.”

“She already has the righteous, eye-rolling cadence of a conspiracy crackpot. She might as well wrap her head in foil.”

“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.But he said, Because I feel sorry for you.Why?Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”

“I’m typically not into thrillers, but her books are so pleasurable to read. I can stay up all night reading them because I simply can’t live without knowing what happens next. Her women characters ...”