636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

Another time-honored ploy: A woman is less likely to throw you out if she’s offered her hospitality. If you have allergies or a cold, asking for a tissue is even better. Women love vulnerability. Most women.

His brain was sticky, phrases and snatches of songs were always wedging themselves in there. Annihilation. He saw flashes of Norse barbarians swinging axes. He wondered for a second, only a second, if he’d been reincarnated, and this was some leftover memory, flittering down like ash. Then he picked up his bike and banished the idea. He wasn’t ten.

Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.

Everyone has a moment when life goes off the rails.

Sometimes that’s what happens. No cigarette burns, no bone snaps. Just an irretrievable slipping.

I heard you could do that – buy books by the yard, turn them into furniture. People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.

Sick and sicker and sickest. What was real and what was fake? Was Amma really sick and needing my mother’s medicine, or was the medicine what was making Amma sick? Did her blue pill make me vomit, or did it keep me from getting more ill than I’d have been without it?

It infects you. It ruined me.

January was the season for house robberies and violence. Christmas was over, and the new year just reminded you of how little your life had changed, and man, people got angry in January.