Gillian Schieber Flynn quotes

Problems always start long before you really, really see them. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted. (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Friends see most of each other's flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
Gillian Schieber 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 Schieber Flynn
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold. (Gillian Schieber 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 Schieber Flynn
Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
Gillian Schieber Flynn
It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
Gillian Schieber 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 magic phrase?
Gillian Schieber Flynn