636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive.

Our kind of love can go into remission, but it’s always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.

I simply assumed I would bundle up my New York wife with her New York interests, her New York pride, and remove her from her New York parents – leave the frantic, thrilling futureland of Manhattan behind – and transplant her to a little town on the river in Missouri, and all would be fine.

My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?? He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you. But he said,‘Because I feel sorry for you.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.

I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music.

My mother said she was the most popular girl in school, and I believed it. Jackie said she was the meanest, and I believed that, too.

Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.

You have the same rhythm. Click. You just know each other. All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it’s so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine. That fast. You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It’s finally arrived.

I hate people who start conversations with facts – what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is.