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

- Gillian Flynn

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

- Gillian Flynn

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

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

- Gillian Flynn