Latest Quotes

“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, Sharp Objects

“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, Sharp Objects

“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, Sharp Objects

“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, Sharp Objects

“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”

— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“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, Sharp Objects

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”

— Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

“Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.”

— Gillian Flynn, The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl

“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, The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl

“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, The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl

“People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.”

— Gillian Flynn, The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl

“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, Gone Girl

“‘Certainly, posting that kind of thing on social media is a bad thought,’ professor Larry Dubin of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law told the Detroit News. ‘But having a bad thought isn’t necessarily a crime.’”

— Larry Dubin, After Dallas Shootings, Police Arrest People for Criticizing Cops on Facebook and Twitter

“The blog era, the real blog era, was so special man. People might never really know about it.”

— Nah Right, via twitter.com

“You can feel deep attachment to a long-term partner while you feel intense romantic love for somebody else, while you feel the sex drive for people unrelated to these other partners. In short, we're capable of loving more than one person at a time.”

— Helen Fisher, Transcript of "Why we love, why we cheat"

“These three brain systems -- lust, romantic love and attachment -- don't always go together.”

— Helen Fisher, Transcript of "Why we love, why we cheat"

“Nowadays, your partner not only has to be the love of your life and your best friend, but also an equal economic partner, co-parent, and passionate lover.”

— Megan Friedman, 6 Reasons Why Happily Married Couples Still Cheat

“The very structure of an affair: the secrecy, the ambiguity, the fact that you have to go days or weeks without seeing each other, that you can never have your lover — these things keep you hungry, they keep you wanting.”

— Winifred Reilly, Why Happy People Cheat -

“Men want it all and have the skewed notion that another woman will make the longing for something more disappear.”

— Jenna Birch, 12 Surprising Facts About Cheating