636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.

It sounded artificial, like a beauty contestant pledging world peace.

Get all that bad stuff out, sweetheart. Don’t stop till it’s all out.

People who get caught get caught because they don’t have patience; they refuse to plan.

I could feel the night hanging on me like a soft, damp bedgown.

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life.

Love is the world’s infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood. – Tony Kushner, THE ILLUSION.

Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry.

Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment – at least one moment – when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name?