Quotes from Gillian Flynn

I don't know anyone's name. If one of those women died, I couldn't even say, "Poor old Mrs. Zalinsky died." I'd have to say, "That mean old bitch across the street bit it." Feeling

being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to being a shallow person.

The X had released its first wave of chemical optimism, I could feel it float up inside me like a big test balloon and splatter on the roof of my mouth, spraying good cheer. I could almost taste it, like a fizzy pink jelly.

It is a January party, definitely, everyone still glutted and sugar-pissed from the holidays, lazy and irritated simultaneously.

Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fingers, vibrators and more, between the legs, from behind, in the mouth. Men love to put things inside women, don't they?

Era la encarnación del peor temor de cualquier escritor: un cliché

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

Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood. Tony Kushner, THE ILLUSION

When I take to my bed, it's good to know whether I'm sick or just lazy.

Wenn man meine Seele zeichnen könnte, wäre es irgendein wildes Gekritzel mit deutlich sichtbaren Reißzähnen.

an old guy with a Hemingway beard and the build of a girl.

There will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months.

Uyku t?pk? bir kedi gibi. Sadece onu görmezden geldiÄŸinde yan?na yakla??yor.

As pessoas dizem que filhos de lares desfeitos têm problemas, mas os filhos de casamentos mágicos também têm seus desafios.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit.

Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don't mind, I'm the Cool Girl.

El amor hace que quieras ser un hombre mejor, vale, de acuerdo. Pero a lo mejor el amor, el verdadero amor, también te autoriza para ser simplemente el hombre que eres.

She had an invisible friend, a giant stuffed bear she called Ben. What kind of kid has an imaginary friend that's a stuffed animal? She collected hair ribbons and arranged them in alphabetical order by color name. She was the kind of girl who exploited her cuteness with such joy you couldn't begrudge her.

Tears ran down my mother's cheeks and dripped loudly onto the leather purse she held in her lap. The woman next to her patted her hand. I slipped my notepad from my jacket pocket and began scribbling notes to one side until my mother slapped her hand on mine and hissed, "You are being disrespectful and embarrassing. Stop or I will make you leave." I quit writing but kept the pad out, feeling stabbingly defiant. But still blushing.

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

I've always thought I could commit the perfect murder. People who get caught get caught because they don't have patience; they refuse to plan.

Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction

Women are fucking crazy. No qualifier: Not some women, not many women. Women are crazy.

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