636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

Safer to be feared than loved.

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

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.