“How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Bored, Being Bored, Sarcasm
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: manipulation, People, Personality
“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, amazon.comTagged: only children, Death, Expectations
“I'm the bitch who makes you a man.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: power of pussy, Bitch, Men, Women
“You are a man. You are an average, lazy, boring, cowardly, woman-fearing man. Without me, that's what you would have kept on being, ad nauseam. But I made you into something. You were the best man you've ever been with me. And you know it. The only time in your life you've ever liked yourself was pr…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: power of pussy, Men, Women, Change
“When I think of my wife, I always think of her head.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: first lines of books
“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
“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
“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, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Disappointment, husbands, wives
“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Love, Lust
“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
“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
“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
“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, amazon.comTagged: humanity, Personality, Life
“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Women, scorned
“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, amazon.comTagged: only children, Disappointment, Death
“The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Lies, Relationships, Dating
“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, amazon.comTagged: charming, Effort, social life
“She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: friendly, Personality, social life
“My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: mother, Children, Decisions, Choices