636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

I feel very sad about those girls,” I said, but it sounded artificial, like a beauty contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me.

It is always consoling to think of suicide; it’s what gets one through many a bad night.

It was a town that bred complacency through cable TV and a convenience store.

It makes me think that everyone is very wrong, that love should have many conditions. Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times. Unconditional love is an undisciplined love, and as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.

I’ve always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

I finally understood – nearly twenty years too late.

Just got to keep on keeping on.

We are all working from the same dog-eared script.

He felt like an animal limping away, some wounded buck that needed to be put down.