636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

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

I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me. Oh, yes, and one time she bought me lotion with vitamin E.

I never worked holidays, because holiday hand jobs are sad for everyone.

Well, a little girl is more likely to trust a person who reminds her of her momma, right?” Depends on what her momma’s like, I thought.

I’ve suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don’t, they’re so numb they won’t feel anything?” “Mmm.” “What if it’s the opposite?” Amma whispered. “What if you hurt because it feels so good? Like you have a tingling, like someone left a switch on in your body. And nothing can turn the switch off except hurting? What does that mean?

If I say I don’t want to read the book, I don’t want to read the book.

Don’t be a scared, dickless boy all your life, letting people push you around, letting people bring up the fear in you.

I’m a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you’re imagining something or if it’s real.