Quotes by Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

Children

Comfort

Poison

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It’s the kind of place that leaves a mark.

Kind

People

Towns

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don’t have genuine souls.

Acting

Play

Soul

Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don’t know what’s out there, yet you know you’ll open it. You’ll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

Doors

Fear

Thinking

Coffee goes great with sudden death.

Coffee

Sudden Death

Don’t be discouraged – every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Discouraged

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

Clothes

People

Ugly

For those who need a name, there’s a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you’re going to the doctor, and I’ll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you’ve fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn’t necessarily wanted to be cured.

Cutting

Doctors

Names

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

Fighting

Giving

Men

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

Empty

Safe

Sky

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Acting

Adults

All Time

Bad In The World

Beautiful

Betrayal

Bird

Blow

Body

Book

Bottles

Butterfly

Character

Children

Clothes

Clouds

Coffee

Cold

Comfort

Consequence

Crime

Culture

Cutting

Dark

Darkness

Daughter

Daylight

Degrees

Despair

Different

Discouraged

Doctors

Done

Doors

Drink

Empty

Enough

Fear

Feelings

Feels

Fighting

Five Senses

Giving

Gone

Grievance

Hands

Happens

Hard

Home

Hours

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Quotes by Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It’s the kind of place that leaves a mark.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don’t have genuine souls.

Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don’t know what’s out there, yet you know you’ll open it. You’ll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

Coffee goes great with sudden death.

Don’t be discouraged – every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

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