My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some…

- Gillian Flynn

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

- Gillian Flynn

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

- Gillian Flynn

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

- Gillian Flynn

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

- Gillian Flynn

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 mag…

- Gillian Flynn

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

- Gillian Flynn

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

- Gillian Flynn

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

- Gillian Flynn