Thirteen years old, I thought to myself, but I felt a spear of admiration for the girl. When I’d been sad, I hurt myself. Amma hurt other people. When I’d wanted attention, I’d submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma’s sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and high, babied voice, all aimed like a gun. Do what I want; I might like you.

— Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn Quotes

I think she’s sick, and I think what she has is contagious.

— Gillian Flynn

Why bother? It’s impossible to compete with the dead.

— Gillian Flynn

But you should never put a fifteen-year-old on a witness stand in a courtroom filled with a bunch of people he knows and expect a lot of tears.

— Gillian Flynn

Thank you, Gillian Flynn, for quoting The Sure Thing- “Nick’s the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn’t mind if you puke in his car. Nick!

— Gillian Flynn

Amy likes to play God when she’s not happy. Old Testament God.

— Gillian Flynn

Richard wanted to take me to all the town’s secret places, the nooks only the locals knew about. Places where people meet to screw or smoke dope, where teens drink, or folks go to sit by themselves and decide where their lives had unraveled. Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.

— Gillian Flynn

What a pure way to die.

— Gillian Flynn

I spent a lot of time before I actually wrote my first book going, “How do you write a book?” The answer is, you just write.

— Gillian Flynn

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you, my mother used to say whenever I resisted her grooming.

— Gillian Flynn

He’s as smooth and shallow as glass.

— Gillian Flynn

Shotgun blasts in a small hallway. The panicked, jaybird cries of my mother, still trying to save her kids with half her head gone.

— Gillian Flynn

I simply assumed I would bundle up my New York wife with her New York interests, her New York pride, and remove her from her New York parents – leave the frantic, thrilling futureland of Manhattan behind – and transplant her to a little town on the river in Missouri, and all would be fine.

— Gillian Flynn

What are you doing here?” asked the prettiest. Her flushed face had the roundness of a girl barely in her teens and her hair was parted in ribbons, but her breasts, which she aimed proudly outward, were those of a grown woman. A lucky grown woman.

— Gillian Flynn

My demons aren’t remotely tackled, they’re just mildly concussed.

— Gillian Flynn

I jammed a floppy blue teddy bear under my head, then felt guilty and returned him to the foot of the bed. One should have allegiance to one’s childhood things.

— Gillian Flynn

People who get caught get caught because they don’t have patience; they refuse to plan.

— Gillian Flynn

We are all working from the same dog-eared script.

— Gillian Flynn

She simply makes things a reality by assuming they are such.

— Gillian Flynn

Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.

— Gillian Flynn

My mother breezed in, smelling like bright blue water. She looked more comfortable in the Nash house than Mrs. Nash did. It was a natural gift for Adora, making other women feel incidental.

— Gillian Flynn
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