Quotes from Gillian Flynn

Get all that bad stuff out, sweetheart. Don't stop till it's all out.

The truth is malleable; you just need to pick the right expert.

Amy Elliot Dunne is like a yeti - coveted and folkloric - ...

worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately.

I like rules that make sense, not rules without logic.

I changed my name for that piece of shit. Historical records have been altered—Amy Elliott to Amy Dunne—like it's nothing. No, he does not get to win.

Don't be a scared, dickless boy all your life, letting people push you around, letting people bring up the fear in you.

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.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

it's a nice day's work when you make a lot of people smile.

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

We are all overdressed in our little flashy frocks, our slasher heels, and we all eat small plates of food bites that are as decorative and unsubstantial as we are.

I was never really on my side in any argument.

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

Women are crazy." Go didn't consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively.

Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own.

Eres mejor que cualquier libro de cuentos, eres mejor que nada que cualquiera pueda inventar.

I'm not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age.

It was my fifth lie to the police. I was just starting.

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

I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kids grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground.

I spoke in a soft, soothing voice, a voice wearing a cardigan.

sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite.