For so many years, my husband has lauded the emotional solidity of midwesterners: stoic, humble, without affectation! But these aren’t the kinds of people who provide good memoir material. Imagine the jacket copy: People behaved mostly well and then they died.

— Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn Quotes

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

If things had gone according to my wife’s vision, yesterday she would have hovered near me as I read this poem, watching me expectantly, the hope emanating from her like a fever: Please get this. Please get me.

— Gillian Flynn

I am a liar and a thief. Don’t let me into your house, and if you do, don’t leave me alone. I take things. You can catch me with your string of fine pearls clickering in my greedy little paws, and I’ll tell you they reminded me of my mother’s and I just had to touch them, just for a second, and I’m so sorry, I don’t know what came over me. My mom never owned any jewelry that didn’t turn her skin green, but you won’t know that. And I’ll still swipe the pearls when you’re not looking.

— Gillian Flynn

I wish I’d be murdered... Then I’d never have to worry again. When you die, you become perfect. I’d be like Princess Diana. Everyone loves her now.

— Gillian Flynn

I drank the rest of the sours and had dark sticky dreams. My mother had cut me open and was unpacking my organs, stacking them in a row on my bed as my flesh flapped to either side.

— Gillian Flynn

A veces mis cicatrices tienen vida propia.

— Gillian Flynn

Sometimes guys, they make things hard for us just because they can.

— Gillian Flynn

What if you hurt because it feels so good? Like you have a tingling, like someone left a switch on in your body. And nothing can turn the switch off except hurting? What does that mean?

— Gillian Flynn

It is a line that is only a little funny, but it already has the feel of an inside joke, one that will get funnier with nostalgic repetition.

— Gillian Flynn

Just one olive, though.

— Gillian Flynn
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