“People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: talking, Silence, Words
“You suffer through the night with the perfect-on-paper man. The stutter of jokes misunderstood, the witty remarks lobbed and missed. Or maybe he understands that you’ve made a witty remark but, unsure of what to do with it, he holds it in his hand like some bit of conversational phlegm he will wipe…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Fine, Love, Relationships
“So I know I am right not to settle, but it doesn’t make me feel better as my friends pair off and I stay home on Friday night with a bottle of wine and make myself an extravagant meal and tell myself, This is perfect, as if I’m the one dating me.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: settle, Dating, Relationships, Single
“He’s doing what you tell him to do because he doesn’t care enough to argue, I think. Your petty demands simply make him feel superior, or resentful, and someday he will fuck his pretty, young coworker who asks nothing of him, and you will actually be shocked.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: arguments, Cheating, resentment
“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
“You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Drinking, Life, Fine
“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Love, In love
“Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: creepy, Fear, Horror
“I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s because you’ve ripped a hole in your skin.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, Pain, Horror
“I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show. A fucking commercial. You know the awful singsong of the blasé: Seeeen it. I've literally seen it all, and the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: T…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Souls, humanity
“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.com
“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Individuality, Self-Love
“'My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?' He was supposed to say: 'You deserve it. I love you.' But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.' 'Why?' 'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: hating yourself, Truth, harsh realities
“There’s a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Love, Loving People, Read Love, Idea of Love
“What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?”— Gillian Flynn, Amy Dunne, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Relationships, The Other