Gillian Flynn Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”
-- Gillian FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.292, Crown
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“My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”
-- Gillian FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.145, Crown
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“Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”
-- Gillian FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.168, Broadway Books
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“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
-- Gillian FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.69, Broadway Books
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“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
-- Gillian FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.449, Broadway Books
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“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”
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“Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)”
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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.”
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“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.”
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“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
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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.”
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“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
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“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”
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“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
-- Gillian FlynnSource : "Fictional Character: Libby Day". "Dark Places", www.imdb.com. 2015.
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“The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”
-- Gillian FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.157, Crown
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“I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.”
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“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”
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“It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.”
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“Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times”
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“I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival”
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“I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.”
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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 FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.18, Broadway Books
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“To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.”
-- Gillian FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.54, Broadway Books
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“I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.”
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“We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.”
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“I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.”
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“A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.”
-- Gillian FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.76, Broadway Books
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“Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”
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“Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.”
-- Gillian FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2009). “Dark Places: A Novel”, p.60, Broadway Books
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