Quote

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

Gillian Flynn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Happiness
Understand
Together
Happiest
Point

More quotes by Gillian Flynn

Image
We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.
Gillian Flynn
Image
Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
Gillian Flynn
Image
Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
Gillian Flynn
Image
I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.
Gillian Flynn
Image
I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
Gillian Flynn
Image
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.
Gillian Flynn
Image
Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
Gillian Flynn
Image
I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
Gillian Flynn
Image
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
Gillian Flynn
Image
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.
Gillian Flynn
Image
I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
Gillian Flynn
Image
Safer to be feared than loved.
Gillian Flynn
Image
It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.
Gillian Flynn
Image
I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.
Gillian Flynn
Image
Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
Gillian Flynn
Image
Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
Gillian Flynn
Image
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.
Gillian Flynn
Image
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
Gillian Flynn
Image
To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
Gillian Flynn
Image
I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
Gillian Flynn