Gillian Flynn Quotes

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

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

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.'

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

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.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

Safer to be feared than loved.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

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.)

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.