Top 350 Gillian Flynn Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.”

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

253. “Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”

— Gillian Flynn

254. “Desi rarely says jackfuck or shitbag; he says swine, which sounds more poisonous on his lips.”

— Gillian Flynn

255. “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

256. “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

257. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

260. “Sick and sicker and sickest. What was real and what was fake? Was Amma really sick and needing my mother’s medicine, or was the medicine what was making Amma sick? Did her blue pill make me vomit, or did it keep me from getting more ill than I’d have been without it?”

— Gillian Flynn

261. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

263. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

269. “That would be our luck.”

— Gillian Flynn

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

273. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

277. “I’d go out each morning and beg for six hours. I knew who to approach and for how long and exactly what to say. I was never ashamed. What I did was purely transactional: You made someone feel good and they gave you money.”

— Gillian Flynn

278. “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

279. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

285. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Gillian Flynn

290. “If you don’t have money, gossip isn’t bad leverage. Even inside one’s own family.”

— 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. “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

293. “I’d let the words run over my brain and out my ears, like a terrified cancer patient hearing all that coded jargon and understanding nothing, except that it was very bad news.”

— Gillian Flynn

294. “I was lying in bed thinking of killing myself, a hobby of mine.”

— Gillian Flynn

295. “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

296. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Gillian Flynn