Top 100 Gillian Quotes
#2. I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating.
Gillian Flynn
#3. 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
#4. I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
Gillian Flynn
#5. 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
#6. How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing.
Gillian Flynn
#7. Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.
Gillian Flynn
#9. 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
#10. I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.
Gillian Jacobs
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move.
Gillian Flynn
#15. If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose.
Gillian Flynn
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.
Gillian Jacobs
#19. Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.
Gillian Flynn
#20. It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time.
Gillian Flynn
#22. Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
Gillian Flynn
#24. 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
#25. the word "silo" does not just refer to a physical structure or organization (such as a department). It can also be a state of mind. Silos exist in structures. But they exist in our minds and social groups too. Silos breed tribalism. But they can also go hand in hand with tunnel vision.
Gillian Tett
#26. 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
#27. I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.
Gillian Anderson
#29. I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.
Gillian Roberts
#30. 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
#31. Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.
Gillian Flynn
#33. People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.
Gillian Anderson
#34. 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
#36. Open up allowing the temporal and eternal self to dance deeper into the conversation.
Gillian Elizabeth
#37. I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.
Gillian Anderson
#38. I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.
Gillian Jacobs
#39. 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
#40. His life was a long line of denials, just waiting for him.
Gillian Flynn
#42. It's all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings.
Gillian Flynn
#43. 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
#44. She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it.
Gillian Flynn
#45. That have never known inhabitants, or homes that have known owners and seen them ejected, the house standing triumphantly voided, humanless.
Gillian Flynn
#46. Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.
Gillian Flynn
#47. Maybe women should leave time for themselves and their relationships and just have some fun.
Gillian Armstrong
#48. Mads is such a talented actor - it's almost like he wears his emotions on his sleeve, but not all the time - when he decides that he needs to, he has such access to his emotional life and it is just really incredible. He can do everything with just his eyes.
Gillian Anderson
#50. A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.
Gillian Flynn
#51. I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.
Gillian Jacobs
#52. Thinking sure could get a fellow in a lot of trouble. Almost as much as opening his big gabber and sticking his muddy foot in it.
Gillian Bronte Adams
#53. 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
#54. I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-camera.
Gillian Jacobs
#56. Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.
Gillian Flynn
#57. Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction,
Gillian Flynn
#58. 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
#59. I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons.
Gillian Anderson
#60. I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.
Gillian Anderson
#61. 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
#62. Life is only as colorful as the paintbox you choose to paint it with.
Gillian Duce
#63. I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.
Gillian Welch
#64. I just figured you'd be too proud. Self-conscious and proud. I was a rather nasty cocktail of both those traits,
Gillian Flynn
#65. So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.
Gillian Flynn
#66. Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow.
Gillian Flynn
#67. 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
#68. That's how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks.
Gillian Flynn
#69. A town so small, you tripped over people you hated every day.
Gillian Flynn
#70. 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
#71. My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?
Gillian Jacobs
#72. Simply put, he would have to keep her from finding out for he much preferred a willing Lady Gillian to a livid one.
Ginny Hartman
#73. I think if you had a dick, all sorts of bad things would happen.
Gillian Flynn
#74. Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.
- Camille Preaker
Gillian Flynn
#75. [She was] sitting across from us, her legs pressed together to one side, like a slash mark. Pretty/professional.
Gillian Flynn
#76. I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
Gillian Anderson
#77. When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.
Gillian Jacobs
#78. 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
#79. It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.
Gillian Armstrong
#80. I love you forever baby, he'd said. She knew immediately then that he'd leave.
Gillian Flynn
#81. The great rebalancing
what does recovery mean today?
Gillian Tett
#82. I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, "At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites?" She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#83. 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
#85. She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way.
Gillian Flynn
#86. If she were alive, someone would need to return her. If she were dead, nature would have to give her up.
Gillian Flynn
#87. To show don't tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.)
Gillian Flynn
#88. Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.
Gillian Flynn
#89. It wasn't that I truly felt bad that I'd upset my mother - it was more that I hated any debits in her column.
Gillian Flynn
#90. How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.
Gillian Flynn
#91. I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community.'
Gillian Jacobs
#92. It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
Gillian Anderson
#93. the water of the lagoon was warm as blood, salt as tears, and astonishingly clear
Gillian Bradshaw
#94. Instead, she'd let it get even more overgrown and cobwebbed. We'd always joked that it would be a good place to bury a body. It couldn't be.
Gillian Flynn
#95. I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.
Gillian Anderson
#96. My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past..
Gillian Flynn
#98. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.
Gillian Flynn
#99. I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.
Gillian Jacobs
#100. A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.
Gillian Jacobs
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