Top 100 Flynn Quotes
#2. With an embarrassingly little amount of effort on his part, he twisted the Glock out of her fingers and flung it across the drive...
"Going so soon?" he asked.
"The company isn't to my liking.
Avery Flynn
#3. I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating.
Gillian Flynn
#4. I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
Errol Flynn
#5. I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.
David James Elliott
#7. I started on the opening page of my own book.
'I am a cheating, weak-spined, women-fearing coward, and i am the hero of your story. Because the woman I cheated on - my wife, Amy Elliott Dunne - is a sociopath and a murderer.'
Yes. I'd read that.
Gillian Flynn
#8. I like my whisky old and my women young.
Errol Flynn
#9. I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
Gillian Flynn
#10. Because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau. Each exposure needed to be more intense than the last to achieve the same result.
Gillian Flynn
#11. As St. Faustina writes, "The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the just one will fathom them" (Diary, 1215).
Vinny Flynn
#12. It was not possible to reason with unreasonable people
Vince Flynn
#13. Each of us is an impregnable fortress that can be laid waste only from within.
Timothy Flynn
#14. How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing.
Gillian Flynn
#15. Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.
Gillian Flynn
#18. I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it. I don't need pathetic dancing monkey
scenarios to repeat to my friends, I am content with letting him be himself.
I don't know why women find that so hard.
Gillian Flynn
#19. I rent a small brick bungalow within a loop of other small brick bungalows, all of which squat on a massive bluff overlooking the former stockyards of Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas. There's a difference.
Gillian Flynn
#20. 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.
Gillian Flynn
#21. Nick's cell phone rings at ten A.M., and I can tell by his voice that it is Go. He sounds springy, boyish, the way he always does when he talks to her. The way he used to sound with me. He heads into the bedroom and shuts
Gillian Flynn
#22. What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'
Nick Flynn
#23. But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move.
Gillian Flynn
#24. If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose.
Gillian Flynn
#25. And I didn't realize. I didn't take into account. Just. You know, this is real to you. I mean, I know that, we know that, but we don't at the same time. We really just never will. I don't think. Totally get that. You spend so much time discussing and debating it becomes ... But. Well. I'm sorry.
Gillian Flynn
#26. I've come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information, in spite of what we might want to believe. It is merely about power. It tells the world that there is now no limit to what we will do when we feel threatened.
Nick Flynn
#27. I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.
Gillian Flynn
#28. Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.
Gillian Flynn
#29. Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.
Humphrey Bogart
#30. I want to be just fast enough for Zach to have to run to catch up, because if I stay ahead, I won't ever have to see his retreating back.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
#31. It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time.
Gillian Flynn
#32. Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
Gillian Flynn
#33. Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger.
Tom Flynn
#34. A lot of people ... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like ... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington ... people who are different, who are larger than life.
Walter Mosley
#36. Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.
Gillian Flynn
#37. I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#38. 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.
Gillian Flynn
#40. 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.
Gillian Flynn
#41. And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.
Avery Flynn
#42. Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.
Gillian Flynn
#43. Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?
Nick Flynn
#44. They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.
Gillian Flynn
#45. Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.
Charlie Flynn
#46. And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#47. Calmly in the precious present, be a light for love and wisdom in the window on your world.
Kevin Flynn
#48. I'm not copying you!" Luke said. "A werewolf is totally different than a vampire! You're creepy all the time. Mine is just, like, a monthly thing ... "
"Like PMS?" I suggested.
"Shut up!
Flynn Meaney
#49. 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
Gillian Flynn
#50. His life was a long line of denials, just waiting for him.
Gillian Flynn
#51. I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#52. It's all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings.
Gillian Flynn
#53. Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fingers, vibrators and more, between the legs, from behind, in the mouth.
Gillian Flynn
#54. She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it.
Gillian Flynn
#55. I have plenty of places to go, but no place to be.
Nick Flynn
#56. That have never known inhabitants, or homes that have known owners and seen them ejected, the house standing triumphantly voided, humanless.
Gillian Flynn
#57. He leaned back, appalled at himself. She was a ***damn dose of truth serum. Things were falling out of his mouth as though his ability to sensor had short-circuited.
Laura Spinella
#58. Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.
Gillian Flynn
#59. It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
Vince Flynn
#61. The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
John T. Flynn
#63. A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.
Gillian Flynn
#64. Shelley says I have no feelings. I say, the trouble with being a man is that if you are a man you have to get on with it and save the feelings for when you're ready to deal with it. So far in my life I've never been ready. I
Mick Flynn
#65. I'm going to f*** you long and hard right here in this kitchen.
Avery Flynn
#66. People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.
Gillian Flynn
#68. Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.
Gillian Flynn
#70. Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction,
Gillian Flynn
#71. Kissi frowned ar him, then looked at me for explanation. I widened my eyes, grimaced: the look women give each other when they're embarrassed of the men they're with.
Gillian Flynn
#72. Ketamine hydrochloride had originally been created as
Joseph Flynn
#73. Although watching her three children toddle to her, sleep-stained from their nap, rubbing their eyes while they make their way to Mama, little hands touching her knee or arm as if she were home base, as if they knew they were safe ... it hurts me sometimes to watch.
Gillian Flynn
#74. I am a man, not a movement," he said. "But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.
Victoria Schwab
#75. A Corsai, a Malchai, and a Sunai walk into a bar -
Everyone groaned, including August.
Victoria Schwab
#76. One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.
Vince Flynn
#77. I just figured you'd be too proud. Self-conscious and proud. I was a rather nasty cocktail of both those traits,
Gillian Flynn
#78. So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.
Gillian Flynn
#79. Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow.
Gillian Flynn
#80. I do know that framing your husband for your murder is beyond the pale of what an average would do. But it's so very necessary.
Gillian Flynn
#81. That's how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks.
Gillian Flynn
#82. A town so small, you tripped over people you hated every day.
Gillian Flynn
#83. Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!
Charlie Flynn
#84. I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.
Errol Flynn
#85. And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices
and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive.
Gillian Flynn
#86. I think if you had a dick, all sorts of bad things would happen.
Gillian Flynn
#87. I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#88. Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.
- Camille Preaker
Gillian Flynn
#89. He had no trust in his own judgement any more, but there was no one else to rely on.
Catherine O'Flynn
#90. [She was] sitting across from us, her legs pressed together to one side, like a slash mark. Pretty/professional.
Gillian Flynn
#91. His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.
Nick Flynn
#93. Desi has loved me ever since the lie, I know he pictures making love to me, how gentle and reassuring he would be as he plunged into me, stroking my hair. I know he pictures me crying softly as I give myself to him.
Gillian Flynn
#94. I love you forever baby, he'd said. She knew immediately then that he'd leave.
Gillian Flynn
#95. Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)
Vince Flynn
#96. Mr. Flynn took it and studied the carving on the handle; then, with a gleam in his eyes, he handed the umbrella to me. On one side of the handle was a carved portcullis, the symbol of the
Karen Odden
#97. Keisha said... I'm going to ride you so hard you might regret seeking shelter here.
Gabe replied... IF you don't, I'm gonna need to go back out and throw myself into a snowbank just to cool off
Avery Flynn
#98. I'm not the kind of girl who ends up with the good guy. I'm the crime boss's daughter.
Avery Flynn
#99. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. She looks nice today, I'd think, but somehow it wouldn't occur to me to say it out loud.
Gillian Flynn
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