Top 350 Gillian Flynn Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile, it can’t be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.”

— Gillian Flynn

252. “I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music.”

— Gillian Flynn

253. “Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”

— Gillian Flynn

254. “We Got Llamas!” Odd words to see in neon.”

— Gillian Flynn

255. “No wedding ring. I wondered when I began to notice such things.”

— Gillian Flynn

256. “You can like an immoral character because she’s interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.”

— Gillian Flynn

257. “In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.”

— Gillian Flynn

258. “People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.”

— Gillian Flynn

259. “Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment – at least one moment – when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name?”

— Gillian Flynn

260. “That’s what I did, though – I had angry, defensive conversations in my head, got mad at things that hadn’t even happened yet. Yet.”

— Gillian Flynn

261. “I can feel a better version of me somewhere.”

— Gillian Flynn

262. “I never worked holidays, because holiday hand jobs are sad for everyone.”

— Gillian Flynn

263. “For so many years, my husband has lauded the emotional solidity of midwesterners: stoic, humble, without affectation! But these aren’t the kinds of people who provide good memoir material. Imagine the jacket copy: People behaved mostly well and then they died.”

— Gillian Flynn

264. “What can I say about a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off?”

— Gillian Flynn

265. “Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.”

— Gillian Flynn

266. “People who get caught get caught because they don’t have patience; they refuse to plan.”

— Gillian Flynn

267. “To me, all that urgent hopefulness was more frightening than if I’d found a pile of skulls with hair still attached. I ran out in full panic, my underwear tucked up a sleeve.”

— Gillian Flynn

268. “A multichild household is a pit of petty jealousies, this I knew, and the Nash children were panicking at the idea of competing not just with one another, but with a dead sister. They had my sympathies.”

— Gillian Flynn

269. “Richard wanted to take me to all the town’s secret places, the nooks only the locals knew about. Places where people meet to screw or smoke dope, where teens drink, or folks go to sit by themselves and decide where their lives had unraveled. Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.”

— Gillian Flynn

270. “When I take to my bed, it’s good to know whether I’m sick or just lazy.”

— Gillian Flynn

271. “Things might not be great, but things would be okay.”

— Gillian Flynn

272. “She had perfect skin, so free of blotches or wrinkles, her face so perfect and character-free she could have just popped out of the womb. They all seemed unfinished. I wanted them to go away.”

— Gillian Flynn

273. “But she did invite me to her house, and women like that don’t invite over women like me unless they want something.”

— Gillian Flynn

274. “To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”

— Gillian Flynn

275. “I’m not someone who can be depended on five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don’t even get out of bed five days in a row – I often don’t remember to eat five days in a row.”

— Gillian Flynn

276. “I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That’s how I’d stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristine. I pictured my pelvis split open, to reveal a tidy hollow, like the nest of a vanished animal.”

— Gillian Flynn

277. “Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry.”

— Gillian Flynn

278. “I’m always looking for a reason to disregard.”

— Gillian Flynn

279. “I was busy thinking of all the people that had been harmed: intentionally, accidentally, deservedly, unfairly, slightly, completely.”

— Gillian Flynn

280. “He was born to be lonely, that’s what he knew for certain.”

— Gillian Flynn

281. “That would be our luck.”

— Gillian Flynn

282. “I’m not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one.”

— Gillian Flynn

283. “Only Tanner Bolt could get away with making me, a client, fly to him, then tell me what kind of dance I’d need to do in order to give him my money.”

— Gillian Flynn

284. “Amy knew that was what I had loved most about us back when I loved us: not the big moments, not the Romantic with capital-R moments, but our secret inside jokes.”

— Gillian Flynn

285. “They were women not strong enough or smart enough to leave. Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop.”

— Gillian Flynn

286. “Sometimes he felt like he’d been gone his whole life – in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he’d never been.”

— Gillian Flynn

287. “I could feel my limbs disconnecting, floating nearby like driftwood on an oily lake.”

— Gillian Flynn

288. “I couldn’t decide if I’d been mistreated. By Richard, by those boys who took my virginity, by anyone. I was never really on my side in any argument.”

— Gillian Flynn

289. “This is the hardest part: waiting for stupid people to figure things out.”

— Gillian Flynn

290. “Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.”

— Gillian Flynn

291. “Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. With Diane, worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately. Diane didn’t worry, that was for less hearty women.”

— Gillian Flynn

292. “I realized I was humming “Uncle John’s Band” to myself for no good reason.”

— Gillian Flynn

293. “That’s how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks.”

— Gillian Flynn

294. “People behaved mostly well and then they died.”

— Gillian Flynn

295. “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

296. “He felt like an animal limping away, some wounded buck that needed to be put down.”

— Gillian Flynn

297. “So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.”

— Gillian Flynn

298. “I just want to live until I can’t anymore.”

— Gillian Flynn

299. “They pictured themselves dashing around Manhattan, latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, adorably breaking a designer heel while hailing a cab.”

— Gillian Flynn

300. “Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.”

— Gillian Flynn