636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

She was one of those middle-aged women who thought they were fooling people.

Paper is first year,′ I said. At the end of Year One’s unexpectedly wrenching treasure hunt, Amy presented me with a set of posh stationery, my initials embossed at the top, the paper so creamy I expected my fingers to come away moist. In return, I’d presented my wife with a bright red dime-store paper kite, picturing the park, picnics, warm summer gusts. Neither of us liked our presents; we’s each have preferred the other’s. It was a reverse O. Henry.

That’s the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.

He killed my soul, which should be a crime. Actually, it is a crime. According to me, at least.

Every tragedy that happens in the world happens to my mother, and this more than anything about her turns my stomach. She worries over people she’s never met who have a spell of bad chance. She cries over news from across the globe. It’s all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings.

I had that overwhelming feeling I get when I’m about to give up on a plan, that big rush of air when I realize that my stroke of genius has flaws, and I don’t have the brains or energy to fix them.

Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it.” Diane’s mantra.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you’re really doing it to them.

But I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. I can’t do it, but I can applaud it in others.