Gillian Flynn quote: "But 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."

I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villai...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but t...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.
GILLIAN FLYNN

The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I put on a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown up, big-girl clothes never qui...
GILLIAN FLYNN

My parents have always worried that I’d take Amy too personally — they always tell not to read t...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That’s how I’d stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristin...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Go didn't like grilled cheese; she was scooping peanut butter out of the jar onto saltines. When a c...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Para Amy, o amor era como drogas, álcool e pornografia: não havia limite. Cada exposiçao precisav...
GILLIAN FLYNN

A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente...
GILLIAN FLYNN

It had turned me into a knee-jerk suckup to authority. Mom, Dad, teachers: Whatever makes your job e...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Wenn man meine Seele zeichnen könnte, wäre es irgendein wildes Gekritzel mit deutlich sichtbaren R...
GILLIAN FLYNN

It was one of the few stories we told the same way.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas tha...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

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

Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.
GILLIAN FLYNN

... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile.
GILLIAN FLYNN

When people ask me that question that everyone asks: "What do you do?" I'd say, "I'm in customer ser...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I’m a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal e...
GILLIAN FLYNN

But she did invite me to her house, and women like that don’t invite over women like me unless the...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She called me Nerdy because I wore glasses and read books and ate yogurt on my lunch break. I'm not ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She defines and eliminates problems. She’s practical in an evil way.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Third choice is a single woman who has that open look. You know it : The same woman you stop to ask ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they'...
GILLIAN FLYNN

So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I mean, if I were a guy, looking to pay a girl to wank
me off, I wouldn’t walk in the room an...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I never worked holidays, because holiday hand jobs are sad for everyone.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are...
GILLIAN FLYNN

inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual frien...
GILLIAN FLYNN

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

I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are...
GILLIAN FLYNN

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

I DIDN’T STOP giving hand jobs because I wasn’t good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I heard you could do that—buy books by the yard, turn them into furniture. People are dumb. I’ll...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I’m not a licensed therapis...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I’m not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one.
GILLIAN FLYNN

She is an incredibly intelligent idiot
GILLIAN FLYNN

But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Money is wasted on the rich.
GILLIAN FLYNN

People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have kno...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that&#...
GILLIAN FLYNN

That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all...
GILLIAN FLYNN

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he m...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
GILLIAN FLYNN

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and...
GILLIAN FLYNN

For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not abo...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and tha...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have g...
GILLIAN FLYNN

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
GILLIAN FLYNN

He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figu...
GILLIAN FLYNN

There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.
GILLIAN FLYNN

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
GILLIAN FLYNN

There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a dr...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyon...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no bound...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood?...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Gi...
GILLIAN FLYNN

My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged m...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hai...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do pe...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inf...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or d...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you per...
GILLIAN FLYNN

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and thin...
GILLIAN FLYNN

People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives w...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, a...
GILLIAN FLYNN

He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the fe...
GILLIAN FLYNN

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the wor...
GILLIAN FLYNN

The ones who are not soul-mated – the ones who have settled – are even more dismissive of my sin...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter....
GILLIAN FLYNN

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'S...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She was scared. I pictured the police knocking, and here I was with a girl I'd been fucking the morn...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
GILLIAN FLYNN

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I could see the cat was definitely on the steps. Still on the steps, 20 minutes after Carl's call. T...
GILLIAN FLYNN

There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.
GILLIAN FLYNN

The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people....
GILLIAN FLYNN

Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back o...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITE...
GILLIAN FLYNN

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
GILLIAN FLYNN

There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, pos...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame p...
GILLIAN FLYNN

No one watches 'Taxi Driver' and says, 'Oh, it's a male-oriented film.' No one l...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I'm like that, nothing sticks.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

It seemed like a joke, how much all of these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just era...
GILLIAN FLYNN

A veces sienta bien joder a alguien. En vez de que siempre lo jodan a uno
GILLIAN FLYNN

Do you understand this is serious?"

"I understand you think it's serious.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.
GILLIAN FLYNN

The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like...
GILLIAN FLYNN

When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself—it’s a hobby today, but at age fourtee...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I've had the blues for twenty-four years.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

The Days were a clan that mighta lived long
But Ben Day’s head got screwed on wrong
That...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

You think you know the answer, you’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix yo...
GILLIAN FLYNN

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

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.
GILLIAN FLYNN

There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Coffee goes great with sudden death.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a bett...
GILLIAN FLYNN

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay,...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredib...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
GILLIAN FLYNN

A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.
GILLIAN FLYNN

You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don...
GILLIAN FLYNN

He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all wo...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the othe...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I'm the bitch who makes you a man.
GILLIAN FLYNN

It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figu...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love...
GILLIAN FLYNN

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
GILLIAN FLYNN

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Back in grade school, my shrinks tried to channel my viciousness into a constructive outlet, so I cu...
GILLIAN FLYNN

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures...
GILLIAN FLYNN

in these shitty plastic days ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. With Diane, worries were almost physical being...
GILLIAN FLYNN

And I don’t know, you’re at that age, if a bunch of grownups are telling you something or encour...
GILLIAN FLYNN

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, a...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. Grant me the serenity to acc...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified no...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there—hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I knew you could do it, I knew you could, Libby," she mumbled into my hair, warm and smoky.
GILLIAN FLYNN

It's an insane, insane crime, a lot of it isn't going to make sense. That's why people are so obsess...
GILLIAN FLYNN

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

Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with.
GILLIAN FLYNN

The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.
GILLIAN FLYNN

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

See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earn...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spi...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbin...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s becau...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I'm definitely much more of a beach bunny. I prefer the sun over the snow.
GILLIAN ZINSER

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-...
GILLIAN JACOBS

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.
GILLIAN JACOBS

Just as sure as each knot on a fisherman's net does not physically connect so far as each knot forms...
GILLIAN DUCE

Love reached across space and time to find you. You are the smile of a million stars.
GILLIAN DUCE

I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that wa...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seb...
GILLIAN JACOBS

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Feeling the anguish does not make you weak, but conceding and hiding from it makes a coward.
GILLIAN DUCE

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in percept...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity,...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she i...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

We can only make ourselves the victim.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Success has nothing to do with happiness.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Be courageous, believe in yourself, and be the best woman you can be. I'm with you all the way.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my a...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series afte...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, C...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.
GILLIAN JACOBS

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.
GILLIAN JACOBS

I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others percei...
GILLIAN ZINSER

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.
GILLIAN JACOBS

When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

In the Arab and Israeli worlds' eyes, Jared Kushner is a perfectly plausible American arbiter of...
GILLIAN TURNER

But 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.

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