Quotes from Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

in these shitty plastic days ...

We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how.

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.

I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.

All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.