636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kid grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground.

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 for me, so I will have proof that you love me best.

That is the correct grammar, you know: her husband and me.

Things might not be great, but things would be okay.

The Days were a clan that mighta lived longBut Ben Day’s head got screwed on wrongThat boy craved dark Satan’s powerSo he killed his family in one nasty hourLittle Michelle he strangled in the nightThen chopped up Debby: a bloody sightMother Patty he saved for lastBlew off her head with a shotgun blastBaby Libby somehow survivedBut to live through that ain’t much a life—SCHOOLYARD RHYME, CIRCA 1985

Wenn man meine Seele zeichnen könnte, wäre es irgendein wildes Gekritzel mit deutlich sichtbaren Reißzähnen.

I know, I know, I know that losing a job is incredibly stressful, and particularly for a man, they say it can be like a death in the family...

in these shitty plastic days ...

Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done.