636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

It never takes much for me to lose patience. The phrase 'fuck you' may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.

What are you thinking, Amy? The question I’ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

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.And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don’t have genuine souls.

But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.

How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.