Gillian Flynn Quotes - Page 2

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• It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

  Gillian Flynn

  Humbling

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.207, Broadway Books

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• Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

  Gillian Flynn

  Worry, Enough, Inviting

  Gillian Flynn (2009). “Dark Places: A Novel”, p.60, Broadway Books

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• Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

  Gillian Flynn

  Simple, Magic, Phrases

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.29, Crown

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• There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

  Gillian Flynn

  Dark, Bars, World

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

  Gillian Flynn

  Pain, Men, Thinking

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

  Gillian Flynn

  Way, Raised

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.452, Broadway Books

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• Safer to be feared than loved.

  Gillian Flynn

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.992, Broadway Books

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• There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

  Gillian Flynn

  Writing, Hard, Millions

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• I had no sympathy for drama queens.

  Gillian Flynn

  Queens, Drama, No Sympathy

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.58, Crown

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• I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.

  Gillian Flynn

  Thinking, Ideas, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

  Gillian Flynn

  Children, Comfort, Poison

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.1055, Broadway Books

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• I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

  Gillian Flynn

  Ends, Periods, Sentences

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.37, Broadway Books

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• Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

  Gillian Flynn

  Mean, Shallow Person, Well Being

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.131, Broadway Books

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• How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

  Gillian Flynn

  Sky, Safe, Empty

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.63, Broadway Books

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• She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

  Gillian Flynn

  Compliment, Like You, Easy

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.257, Broadway Books

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• 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

  Body, Legs, Mouths

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

  Gillian Flynn

  Children, Soul, Adults

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.449, Broadway Books

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• 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.

  Gillian Flynn

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Land

  "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.

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• They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

  Gillian Flynn

  Yellow, Exhausted, Weak

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.66, Broadway Books

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• People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

  Gillian Flynn

  Children, Home, People

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.27, Crown

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• It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

  Gillian Flynn

  Real, Character, Personality

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

  Gillian Flynn

  Mom, Dad, Kind

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.61, Crown

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• Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

  Gillian Flynn

  Clothes, People, Ugly

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.153, Broadway Books

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• People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

  Gillian Flynn

  Talking, People, Lips

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.137, Crown

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• Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

  Gillian Flynn

  People, Sometimes, Ifs

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.182, Broadway Books

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