My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.


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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