Gillian Flynn Quotes
born 1971 United States
Gillian Schieber Flynn (February 24, 1971) is an American writer.
- United States
- Authors
- Film critics
- Journalists
- Non-fiction authors
Also known as: Gillian Schieber Flynn
Random Gillian Flynn quote
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Sleep is like a cat: it only comes to you if you ignore it.
Gone Girl (2012)
She already has the righteous, eye-rolling cadence of a conspiracy crackpot. She might as well wrap her head in foil.
Gone Girl (2012)
I can see people milling about under the fluorescent lights. It’s the kind of place where people mill about.
Gone Girl (2012)
Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.
I don’t want to be married to a woman like you. I want to be married to a normal person.
Gone Girl (2012)
You can’t be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it’s always waiting to return. Like the world’s sweetest cancer.
Gone Girl (2012)
I’m so much happier now that I’m dead.
Gone Girl (2012)
…soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags.
Gone Girl (2012)
I wanted to make it clear that the show’s about a matriarchy. I wanted it to be clear that power can be ugly, and a matriarchy is just as ugly as a patriarchy. It may look a little different, but power is bloody.
“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?
He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.
But he said, “Because I feel sorry for you.”
“Why?”
“Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”
Gone Girl (2012)
The media has saturated the legal environment. With the Internet, Facebook, YouTube, there’s no such thing as an unbiased jury anymore. No clean slate. Eighty, ninety percent of the case is decided before you get in the court room. So why not use it—control the story.
Gone Girl (2012)
I think there’s a deep societal fear of female rage, partly because it hasn’t been experienced a lot. Men—I speak in vast generalities—are often very afraid of what they don’t know how to handle. And they haven’t had to handle female rage a lot, and they think they need to handle it.