Top 32 Gillian Flynn Gone Girl Quotes
#1. And people loved me. I was no longer the pity case (with, how weird, the dead sister). I was the pretty girl (with, how sad, the dead sister). And so I was popular.
Gillian Flynn
#2. It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months.
Gillian Flynn
#3. He had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied.
Gillian Flynn
#4. My mother said she was the most popular girl in school, and I believed it. Jackie said she was the meanest, and I believed that, too.
Gillian Flynn
#5. You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.
Sherwood Anderson
#6. Well, a little girl is more likely to trust a person who reminds her of her momma, right? Depends on what her momma's like, I thought.
Gillian Flynn
#7. An old guy with a Hemingway beard and the build of a girl.
Gillian Flynn
#8. I put on a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown up, big-girl clothes never quite fitting. I'm barely five foot -- four foot, ten inches in truth, but I round up. Sue me. I'm thirty-one, but people tend to talk to me in singsong, like they want to give me fingerpaints.
Gillian Flynn
#9. How odd, that I ruined my marriage over that little girl with whom I had nothing in common except that we both liked a good laugh and a cold beer after sex.
Gillian Flynn
#10. It was one of the few stories we told the same way.
Gillian Flynn
#11. I was the girl who battles oblivion and won. The chances were about 1 percent, but I did it.
Gillian Flynn
#12. I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.
Gillian Flynn
#13. 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.
Gillian Flynn
#16. What are you thinking, Amy? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we ddone to each other? What will we do?
Gillian Flynn
#17. Don't you dare hide behind your illness!"
"You were the one who just said I couldn't help it!"
"You can't help being ill, but you can help what you do about it," Eithne says sharply.
Tess Stimson
#18. 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.
Gillian Flynn
#19. I'm just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold.
Gillian Flynn
#20. I knew I liked her then, really liked her, this girl with an explanation for everything.
Gillian Flynn
#21. He's calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That's what men do: They try to make it sound like you are the Cool Girl so you will bow to their wishes.
Gillian Flynn
#22. At one point, she probably liked the idea of a daughter. When she was a girl, I bet she daydreamed of being a mother, of coddling, of licking her child like a milk-swelled cat. She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public, was a beloved child.
Gillian Flynn
#23. What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer?
Gillian Flynn
#26. 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.
Gillian Flynn
#27. Sorry, I thought I was just thinking that.
Kelly Oxford
#28. 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.
Gillian Flynn
#29. 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
#30. You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
Laura Linney
#31. 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
#32. You should win an award or something for most compassionate student. No, wait. I mean the most self-centered dipshit award." Her
Samantha Young
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