636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia.

I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making faces, and I would try to do that too, but I wouldn’t understand why. I would sit there with the tight elastic thread of the birthday hat parting the pudge of my underchin, with the grainy frosting of the cake bluing my teeth, and I would try to figure out why it was fun. With Nick, I understood finally. Because he was so much fun. It was like dating a sea otter.

I can’t think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

I’m all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

Nothing to it but to do it.

Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Serenity Prayer.

There was just me, left wretched in my childhood bed.

I’m not good at things like that: haircuts or oil changes or dentist visits. When I moved into my bungalow, I spent the first three months swaddled in blankets because I couldn’t deal with getting the gas turned on. It’s been turned off three times in the past few years, because sometimes I can’t quite bring myself to write a check. I have trouble maintaining.

But she did invite me to her house, and women like that don’t invite over women like me unless they want something.