636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second.

Frankly, I think Adora prefers us to feel like strangers. She wants all relationships in the house to run through her.

I don’t know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.

That would be our luck.

I’m a true-crime addict. It’s not something I’m particularly proud of, but I can’t stop.

Money is wasted on the rich.

My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don’t need to give myself the willies. I’m quite good at that – I can freak myself out wherever I am.

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

DNA to me was some sort of magical element, some glowing goo that was always getting people out of prison.