Gillian Quotes & Sayings

At her easiest, she was hard, because her brain was always working, working, working - I had to exert myself just to keep pace with her. I'd spend an hour crafting a casual e-mail to her, I became a student of arcana so I could keep her interested: the Lake poets, the code duello, the French Revolution. Her mind was both wide and deep, and I got smarter being with her. And more considerate, and more active, and more alive, and almost electric, 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.
Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing. Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and averageness, and I hated myself for it, and ultimately, I realized, I punished her for it. I turned her into the brittle, prickly thing she became. — Gillian Flynn

Fuck you," Sally says. She tosses the words off, easy as butter in her mouth, but in fact she doesn't think she's ever cursed out loud in her own house before.
"Fuck you twice," Gillian says. "You need it more. — Alice Hoffman

He promised to take care of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse. — Gillian Flynn

Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. — Gillian Flynn

The Day women were the definition of mob mentality. And here they were on a farm with plenty of pitchforks. — Gillian Flynn

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards. — Gillian Jacobs

That night at the Brooklyn party, I was playing the girl who was in style, the girl a man like Nick wants: the Cool Girl. Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she's hosting the world's biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. — Gillian Flynn

But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move. — Gillian Flynn

Voice. We'll get slowly lazy-drunk on good — Gillian Flynn

I've been tracking Nick's moods. Toward me. Just to make sure I'm not crazy. I've got a calendar, and I put hearts on any day Nick seems to love me again, and black squares when he doesn't. — Gillian Flynn

We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves. — Gillian Flynn

I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It — Gillian Flynn

Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night. — Gillian Jacobs

It's an insane, insane crime, a lot of it isn't going to make sense. That's why people are so obsessed with these murders. If they made any sense, they wouldn't really be mysteries, right? — Gillian Flynn

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' — Gillian Flynn

I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone. — Gillian Flynn

There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick. — Gillian Flynn

I've seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the challenges doing theater - especially a long production - how to keep it alive for yourself and the audience. — Gillian Anderson

All this could have been avoided if I were less pretty. — Gillian Flynn

Ska," I said, swerving toward delirious laughter. "Great. — Gillian Flynn

Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest release, so it's a difficult thing between balancing indies that have uncertain futures and maybe larger films that have guaranteed releases that you have a smaller part in. — Gillian Jacobs

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual. — Gillian Armstrong

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. — Gillian Flynn

Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy. — Gillian Flynn

But I know I'll never sleep again. I can't close my eyes when I'm next to her. It's like sleeping with a spider. — Gillian Flynn

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 Flynn

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

Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively. — Gillian Flynn

Downstairs, I could hear the return of a long-lost sound: Amy making breakfast. Banging wooden cupboards (rump-thump!), rattling containers of tin and glass (ding-ring!), shuffling and sorting a collection of metal pots and iron pans (ruzz-shuzz!). A culinary orchestra tuning up, clattering vigorously toward the finale, a cake pan drumrolling along the floor, hitting the wall with a cymballic crash. — Gillian Flynn

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas, — Gillian Flynn

She called me Nerdy because I wore glasses and read books and ate yogurt on my lunch break. I'm not really a nerd: I only aspire to be one. Because of the high-school-dropout thing, I'm a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people - people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin - that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life. So I wear the name as a badge of honor. That someday I may not totally bore some really smart people. The question is: How do you find smart people? — Gillian Flynn

Danish. I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival. — Gillian Flynn

It is one of those big-smelling days, when people bring the outdoors in with them, the scent of rain on their sleeves, in their hair. — Gillian Flynn

Patty knew that feeling, a dream hangover, like when she jumped up from a panicky sleep at 2 in the morning and tried to talk herself into thinking the farm was OK, that this year would pick up, and then felt all the sicker when she woke up to the alarm a few hours later, guilty and duped. It was suprising 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.' -Dark Places — Gillian Flynn

How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow. — Gillian Flynn

Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction, — Gillian Flynn

soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags. — Gillian Flynn

I was not raised by big-dreamer parents who pictured their child as a future president. I was raised by pragmatic parents who pictured their child as a future office worker of some sort, making a living of some sort. — Gillian Flynn

I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again. — Gillian Jacobs

too much, because it feels so good — Gillian Flynn

I will find you, Amy.
Lovesick words, hateful intentions. — Gillian Flynn

How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing. — Gillian Flynn

see a 3 and an 8. (He said.) And then work — Gillian Flynn

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort. — Gillian Flynn

Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss. The — Gillian Flynn

I should add, in Amy's defense, that she'd asked me twice if I wanted to talk, if I was sure I wanted to do this. I sometimes leave out details like that. It's more convenient for me. In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation. I was sometimes as guilty of playing the figure-me-out game as Amy was. I've left that bit of information out, too. — Gillian Flynn

I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won't work on me because I'm not 5'10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wear things that skim my body more closely than a runway model would. — Gillian Jacobs

No relationship is perfect, they say - they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation - yes, honey, okay, honey - is the same as concord. — Gillian Flynn

I love you forever baby, he'd said. She knew immediately then that he'd leave. — Gillian Flynn

on the way to the beauty parlor. — Gillian Flynn

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

An old guy with a Hemingway beard and the build of a girl. — Gillian Flynn

I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun. — Gillian Jacobs

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

If you don't have money, gossip isn't bad leverage. Even inside one's own family. — Gillian Flynn

Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past. — Gillian Flynn

I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. — Gillian Flynn

He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better. — Gillian Flynn

I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring. — Gillian Jacobs

Sometimes it is all too loud. — Gillian Flynn

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.' — Gillian Jacobs

When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen. — Gillian Armstrong

I am more spontaneous than my character. — Gillian Anderson

You think you can ever be a normal man again? You'll find a nice girl, and you'll still think of me, and you'll be so completely dissatisfied, trapped in your boring, normal life with your regular wife and your two average kids. You'll think of me and then you'll look at your wife, and you'll think: Dumb bitch. — Gillian Flynn

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

You are better than any storybook, you are better than anything anyone could make up. — Gillian Flynn

I spoke in a soft, soothing voice, a voice wearing a cardigan. — Gillian Flynn

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity — Gillian Anderson

Amy will be fine. Amy ... " Here was where I should have said, "Amy loves Mom." But I couldn't tell Go that Amy loved our mother, because after all that time, Amy still barely knew our mother. Their few meetings had left them both baffled. Amy would dissect the conversations for days after - "And what did she mean by ... " - as if my mother were some ancient peasant tribeswoman arriving from the tundra with an armful of raw yak meat and some buttons for bartering, trying to get something from Amy that wasn't on offer. — Gillian Flynn

dies novus est," he said, quoting one of Flora's favorite Latin expressions. "Tomorrow is a new day. — Gillian Anderson

Sometimes when you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. — Gillian Flynn

Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God. — Gillian Flynn

Third choice is a single woman who has that open look. You know it : The same woman you stop to ask for directions or the time of day, that's the woman we ask for money. — Gillian Flynn

Hollywood is hard on women. — Gillian Armstrong

Hollywood is a very old and very structured situation. There's still a lot of old boys at the top who have the money. — Gillian Armstrong

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film. — Gillian Armstrong

He took an enormous mouthful of grains, speaking around it. "You feen weddie?"
Gillian raised an eyebrow. "I don't speak moronese. — Lara Morgan

I really hope you like this," he says again, and flings open the door.
It's a glass room, a greenhouse, I realize. Within are tulips, hundreds, of all colors. Tulips bloom in the middle of July in Desi's lake house. In their own special room for a very special girl.
"I know tulips are your favorite, but the season is so short," Desi said. "So I fixed that for you. They'll bloom year-round. — Gillian Flynn

He was not my actual father-who would have loved me and spent time with me-but a benevolent and vaguely important figure named Mr. Brown — Gillian Flynn

I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that. — Gillian Jacobs

Listen little Songkeeper, the voice whispered, and I will sing you a Song. — Gillian Bronte Adams

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy. — Gillian Jacobs

You can like an immoral character because she's interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner. — Gillian Flynn

(never entirely erased the stink, though - she must have one rank pussy), — Gillian Flynn

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places. — Gillian Anderson

The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free. — Gillian Cross

What do I say to a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off? — Gillian Flynn

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. — Gillian Flynn

I'm like that, nothing sticks. — Gillian Flynn

It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed. — Gillian Flynn

The world had little patience or concern for innocence. — Gillian Anderson

I hate people who start conversations with facts - what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is. — Gillian Flynn

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

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

I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, and Clover Canyon. — Gillian Jacobs

I'm a Bravoholic, and I love 'RuPaul's Drag Race.' — Gillian Jacobs

There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die. — Gillian Flynn

She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. — Gillian Flynn

Thank you, Gillian Flynn, for quoting The Sure Thing- Nick's the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn't mind if you puke in his car. Nick! — Gillian Flynn

He has given me exactly ten Fritos and then secreted away the bag. He doesn't like the smell; it offends him, he says, but what he really doesn't like is my weight. — Gillian Flynn