Latest Quotes

“When I was seventeen and in full obedience to my heart’s most urgent commands, I stepped far from the pathway of normal life and in a moment’s time ruined everything I loved— I loved so deeply, and when the love was interrupted, when the incorporeal body of love shrank back in terror and my own body…”

— Scott Spencer, Endless Love (Open Road)

“THE AMERICAN ACADEMY of Emergency Medicine confirms it: Each year, between one and two dozen adult US males are admitted to ERs after having castrated themselves.”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“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, Gone Girl

“I hate people who start conversations with facts - what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is.”

— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“SQUIRE Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen…”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (Dover Thrift Editions)

“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone. She fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“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, Gone Girl

“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, Gone Girl

“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, Gone Girl

“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, Gone Girl

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

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with.”

— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“The phrase 'fuck you' may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.”

— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz…”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl