636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

There are no really new stories anymore.

What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.

Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

Coffee goes great with sudden death.

I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.

There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

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