Quotes by Gillian Flynn

“... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile.”

“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 ...”

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

“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 you’d never done it. And thosewill be the good times, when it’s only days of regret and notmonths.”

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

“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 I’d take Amy too personally — they always tell not to read too much into her, And yet I can’t fail to notice that whenever I screw something up, Amy does it righ...”

“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...”

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

“Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature sp...”

“I'm just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold.”

“Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.”

“It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.”

“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She ad...”

“The Amy of today was abrasive enough to want to hurt, sometimes. I speak specifically of the Amy of today, who was only remotely like the woman I fell in love with. It had been an awful fairy-tale ...”

“Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.- Camille Preaker”

“Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.”

“She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.”

“I wanted to make it clear that the show’s about a matriarchy. I wanted it to be clear that power can be ugly, and a matriarchy is just as ugly as a patriarchy. It may look a little different, but p...”