Top 100 Gillian Flynn Quotes

#1. I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating.

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#2. I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

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#3. neighbors, I ran errands for Mo's

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#4. I have learned about bulk shopping in my four weeks as a Mississippi River resident. Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. But everyone buys bulk because - unlike Manhattanites - they all have space to store twenty-four jars of sweet pickles.

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#5. It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time.

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#6. My dad was a man of infinite varieties of bitterness, rage, distaste. In my lifelong struggle to avoid becoming him, I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all.

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#7. I don't mind, I'm the Cool Girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they're fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl.

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#8. One snowy April night, I felt so lonely. I was drinking warm amaretto with Bleecker and reading, lying on the floor as the snow came down, listening to old scratchy albums, like Nick and I used to

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#9. It's all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings.

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#10. That have never known inhabitants, or homes that have known owners and seen them ejected, the house standing triumphantly voided, humanless.

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#11. Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.

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#12. Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction,

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#13. So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.

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#14. If she were alive, someone would need to return her. If she were dead, nature would have to give her up.

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#15. How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.

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#16. When I take to my bed, it's good to know whether I'm sick or just lazy.

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#17. You'd be my pariah, and I'd love you no matter what, and I'd shield you from everything, Desi said.

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#18. You're here covering the murders, bad girl," Jackie continued. "Adora must hate that. Sleeping in her house with your dirty little brain. ( ... ) Course before Adora took it over, we all slept over at Joya's house with our dirty little brains. Same house, different crazy lady running it.

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

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#20. If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.

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#21. Three girls until, at last, their baby boy. As I sipped my bourbon and cracked peanuts, I pondered the growing desperation the Nashes must have felt each time a child popped out without a penis.

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#22. All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.

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#23. Of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong,

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#24. I know I am right not to settle,

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#25. My mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby.

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#26. Love should require both partners to be very best at all times.

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#27. I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage.

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#28. I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

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#29. of all this?" Gilpin

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#30. And she'd feel sorry for the kids, but not in a way that made her want to help, just in a way that made her not want to look at them anymore.

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#31. She is an incredibly intelligent idiot

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#32. Women are fucking crazy. No qualifier: Not some women, not many women. Women are crazy.

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#33. Worse, I convinced myself our tragedy was entirely her making. I spent years working myself into the very thing I swore she was: a righteous ball of hate.

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#34. We are one long frightening climax.

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#35. Nothing to it but to do it.

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#36. You're a man who cheats on his wife, you can't ever undo that.

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#37. Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women - they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them.

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#38. It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now.

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#39. Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

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#40. I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

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#41. Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it.

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#42. Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

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#43. Maybe I'd grow a garden of weeds.

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#44. I'll be interested to hear what the swine has to say for himself, he says. Desi rarely says jackfuck or shitbag; he says swine, which sounds more poisonous on his lips.

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#45. Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.

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#46. Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love. The pointless tasks, the myriad sacrifices, the endless small surrenders. We call these men the dancing monkeys.

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#47. People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know their husbands.

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#48. Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder.

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#49. Diary Amy. She was meant to be likable. Meant for someone like you to like her. She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you. No matter.

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#50. You think you know the answer, you're going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there's any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened.

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#51. She'd used the treasure hunt to take me on a tour of all my infidelities.

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#52. I simply assumed I would bundle up my New York wife with her New York interests, her New York pride, and remove her from her New York parents - leave the frantic, thrilling futureland of Manhattan behind - and transplant her to a little town on the river in Missouri, and all would be fine.

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#53. Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they're easily offended.

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#54. I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

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#55. It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.

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#56. I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

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#57. I went into Andie's bathroom, took a piss, looked at myself in the mirror, and made myself say it: You are a cheater. You have failed one of the most basic male tests. You are not a good man. And when that didn't bother me, I thought: You're really not a good man.

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#58. My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then deserted me?

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#59. Wouldn't it be so lovely to just forget about Nick, those awful five years, and move on?

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#60. Now, I like a writer party, I like writers, I am the child of writers, I am a writer. I still love scribbling that word - WRITER - anytime

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#61. I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one.

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#62. If I had a dick, I would fuck this peanut butter,

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#63. occurred! Amy was shot! But then I realized

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#64. You are turning me into what I never have been and never wanted to be, a nag, because you are not living up to your end of a very basic contract. Don't do that, it's not okay to do.

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#65. Mama Mo does not insist. She simply makes things a reality by assuming they are such:

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#66. The woman's entire music collection is formed from Pottery Barn compilations.

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#67. Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.

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#68. I love that I am a woman with booby traps

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#69. He promised to take care of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse.

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#70. I couldn't decide if I'd been mistreated. By Richard, by those boys who took my virginity, by anyone. I was never really on my side in any argument.

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#71. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them. You know what is hard? Faking

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#72. You always take the extra step that others don't, that's who you are.

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#73. I don't want her to kill you. I mean, someday you burn her grilled cheese, and the next thing you know, my phone's ringing and you've taken an awful fall from the roof or some shit. Leave.

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#74. On the pavement near my car are the smashed skeletons of two baby birds, their flattened beaks and wings making them look reptilian. They've been there for a year. I can't resist looking at them each time I get in my car. We need a good flood, wash them away.

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#75. There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

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

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#77. It doesn't matter, because I have found my match. It's Nick, laid-back and calm, smart and fun and uncomplicated. Untortured, happy. Nice. Big penis.

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#78. Can say that?" I do want to start over with the right man, the New Nick. Things are looking bad for him, dire. Only I can save Nick from me. But I am trapped. "If you ever left here and I didn't

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#79. Andie was a physical girl, and that's not code for 'It's all about the sex'. She was a hugger, a toucher, she was prone to running her fingers through my hair or down my back in a friendly scratch. She got reassurance and comfort from touching. And yes, fine, she also liked sex.

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#80. He's always been moody. Even when he was a baby he was like a cat. All snuggly one second and then the next, he'd be looking at you like he had no idea who you were.

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#81. Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, and let the cameras get their fifteen seconds, and I whispered deep inside her ear, 'You fucking bitch.

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#82. It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

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#83. I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

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

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#85. our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and

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#86. She smoked so much she smelled like tobacco even after a shower, like if she slit her skin, menthol vapor would ooze out. He'd come to like it, it smelled like comfort and home to him, the way warm bread might to someone else.

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#87. Everyone has their own version of a memory,

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#88. Marrow-deep embarrassment, the kind that becomes part of your DNA, that changes you.

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#89. One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things.

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#90. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen

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#91. I've basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me.

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#92. I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.

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#93. It makes me think that everyone is very wrong, that love should have many conditions. Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times. Unconditional love is an undisciplined love, and as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.

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#94. My husband is the most loyal man on the planet until he's not.

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#95. The X had released its first wave of chemical optimism, I could feel it float up inside me like a big test balloon and splatter on the roof of my mouth, spraying good cheer. I could almost taste it, like a fizzy pink jelly.

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#96. I know that losing a job is incredibly stressful, and particularly for a man, they say it can be like a death in the family,

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#97. Len never said hello as a greeting; he said something like a yodel, He-a-lo!

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#98. Sometimes it is all too loud. T

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#99. See, Curry, Detective Willis felt I was holding back some information and so he sulked off, like all men do when they don't get their way with women they've fooled around with.

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#100. He had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied.

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