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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Gillian Schieber Flynn
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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.
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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
Gillian Flynn
I would have done anything to feel real again.
Gillian Flynn
My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.
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A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.
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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.
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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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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?
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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
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Safer to be feared than loved.
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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.
Gillian Flynn
She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
Gillian Flynn
There are no really new stories anymore.
Gillian Flynn
I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
Gillian Flynn
Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
Gillian Flynn
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
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