Gillian Schieber Flynn quotes - page 3

... 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. (Gillian Schieber 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. View quote
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I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs. View quote
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People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know their husbands. View quote
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Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it. View quote
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite. View quote
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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. View quote
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Danish. I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival. View quote
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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. View quote
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. View quote
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I wanted to make it clear that the show's about a matriarchy. I wanted it to be clear that power can be ugly, and a matriarchy is just as ugly as a patriarchy. It may look a little different, but power is bloody. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
I think there's a deep societal fear of female rage, partly because it hasn't been experienced a lot. Men-I speak in vast generalities-are often very afraid of what they don't know how to handle. And they haven't had to handle female rage a lot, and they think they need to handle it. View quote
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It's incredibly misogynist to tell me I can only write a certain type of woman. Because that's saying women must be a certain type of person. That puts us back to the Stone Age-like women are saints and therefore not human and if we stray beyond that model, we'll be severely punished. It denies us any humanity. It doesn't even bother me. It just bounces off me. It's such a ridiculous notion that my novels are misogynist because I don't write the kind of women you want. View quote
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Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer. View quote
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Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think. View quote
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Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it. View quote
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If you can't take care of me while I'm alive, you have made me dead anyway. View quote
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There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile, it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad. View quote
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I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief. View quote
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I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that. View quote
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You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. 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? View quote
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If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears. View quote
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Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'. View quote
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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore. View quote
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