Top 350 Gillian Flynn Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I like other people’s things better. They come with other people’s history.”

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

253. “She was wearing a black pantsuit with a pale pink turtleneck underneath, a painfully aspirational look for a stripper.”

— Gillian Flynn

254. “I remember at one point starting a goofy story about a childhood field trip here, and I saw her eyes go blank, and I got secretly furious, spent ten minutes just winding myself up – because at this point of our marriage, I was so used to being angry with her, it felt almost enjoyable, like gnawing on a cuticle: You know you should stop, that it doesn’t really feel as good as you think, but you can’t quit grinding away.”

— Gillian Flynn

255. “She’s a planner. She doesn’t, you know, wing anything. She likes to make lists and check things off, get things done.”

— Gillian Flynn

256. “I wish I’d be murdered... Then I’d never have to worry again. When you die, you become perfect. I’d be like Princess Diana. Everyone loves her now.”

— Gillian Flynn

257. “I could feel the night hanging on me like a soft, damp bedgown.”

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

259. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

261. “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

262. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

265. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

271. “TV goes to a commercial for air freshener. A woman is spraying air freshener so her family will be happy.”

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

274. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

279. “It is always consoling to think of suicide; it’s what gets one through many a bad night.”

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

283. “Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it.” Diane’s mantra.”

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

286. “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

287. “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

288. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

290. “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

291. “If I say I don’t want to read the book, I don’t want to read the book.”

— Gillian Flynn

292. “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

293. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

297. “That would be our luck.”

— Gillian Flynn

298. “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

299. “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

300. “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