“There are few phrases that annoy me more than 'I won't bite.' The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: 'Smile, it can't be that bad!' Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Men, Women, Drunk, smiling
“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Women, Blood, cleaning, tampons
“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Relationships, cool girl, Women
“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Women, scorned
“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Women, Men, sickness
“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone. She fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Sad, upset, angry, Feelings, emotions
“I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn’t ruined. 153 and I haven’t destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won’t ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to ge…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Safety, Death, Dying
“Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women - they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: pregnant, self-righteous, Sex
“Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) And yet: Don't land me in one of those relationships where we're always pecking at each other, disguising insults as jokes, rolling our eyes and "playfully" scrapping in front of ou…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Relationships, Love
“One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, husbands, Love
“Wear this, don't wear that. Do this chore now and do this chore when you get a chance and by that I mean now. And definitely, definitely give up the things you love fro me, so I will have proof that you love me best. It's the female pissing contest -- as we swan around our book clubs and our cocktai…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Relationships, Men, Women, Love
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Night, Morning, pretending, Feelings
“Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Failure, Breakups
“I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row. I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours, eight big hours outside my home…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Work, Career, social life
“The phrase 'fuck you' may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Words, Anger, fuck off
“You think you know the answer, you’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there’s any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Past, Acceptance, Peace
“It’s a very female thing, isn’t it, to take one boys’ night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Women, Marriage, Divorce
“People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: humanity, stupidity, Life
“I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: depressed, Depression, Growing Up
“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, amazon.comTagged: Education, Intelligence, College
“I didn't stop giving hand jobs because I wasn’t good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I was the best at it. For three years, I gave the best hand job in the tristate area. The key is to not overthink it. If you start worrying about technique, if you begin analyzing rhythm and pressure, you…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: hand jobs, Sex, prostitution
“Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Money, rich, Sadness, Greed
“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Books, Sex, Work
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Personality, Opinions, Life
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Life, humanity, Communication
“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Tears, Pain, unconscious
“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Sadness, Suffering
“I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: liquor, Drinking, Protection
“Everyone has their own version of a memory.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Past, differences
“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Child, adult, meanness