Quotes by 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?”

“At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reection ared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring nger aimed at m...”

“... its a nice days work when you make a lot of people smile.”

“She is an incredibly intelligent idiot”

“Books are temporary , dicks are forever”

“One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors.”

“You can like an immoral character because shes interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.”

“The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically ...”

“Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were ...”

“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publ...”

“Things might not be great, but things would be okay.”

“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”

“Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know y...”

“And I think, "I'm so fucking lonely". I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That's not old especially in New York. But the fact is it has been years since I even liked someone. So how like...”

“There will be days you wish youd never done it. And thosewill be the good times, when its only days of regret and notmonths.”

“So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.”

“I didn't think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn't worry about how to recycle the can or about the acid puddling in my belly, acid so powerful it could stri...”

“The man cocked his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back.”

“My parents have always worried that Id take Amy too personally they always tell not to read too much into her, And yet I cant fail to notice that whenever I screw something up, Amy does it right: ...”

“I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or corsages. Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper p...”