636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

Clean and bleed. Bleed and clean.

Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.

She had an invisible friend, a giant stuffed bear she called Ben. What kind of kid has an imaginary friend that’s a stuffed animal? She collected hair ribbons and arranged them in alphabetical order by color name. She was the kind of girl who exploited her cuteness with such joy you couldn’t begrudge her.

I lack formal education. So I’m left with the feeling that I’m smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people – people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin – that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.

We Got Llamas!” Odd words to see in neon.

You are turning me into what I never have been and never wanted to be, a nag, because you are not living up to your end of a very basic contract. Don’t do that, it’s not okay to do.

Why bother? It’s impossible to compete with the dead.

My brother slaughtered my family when I was seven. My mom, two sisters, gone: bang bang, chop chop, choke choke.

I always feel sad for the girl that i was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me.