636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

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

No.” I folded in on myself, ignoring my meal, projecting glumness. That was another of my mom’s words: glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.

The problem started long before that, of course. Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

I was already tired of talking, and I’d said very little.

I spent a lot of time before I actually wrote my first book going, “How do you write a book?” The answer is, you just write.

I really wanted the book to make money, in an obsessive childish way – that feeling that if I wanted it enough, it should happen. It should happen.

Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.

She was wearing a black pantsuit with a pale pink turtleneck underneath, a painfully aspirational look for a stripper.

She said in the way you might wish someone good luck on the lottery.