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 More Quotes by Gillian Flynn More Quotes From Gillian Flynn Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit. Gillian Flynn flaws awful lasts The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you. Gillian Flynn faces giving world Problems always start long before you really, really see them. Gillian Flynn problem long 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. Gillian Flynn mother kids ideas 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 real dark might Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite Gillian Flynn kryptonite ironic people There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink. Gillian Flynn bars dark world There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold. Gillian Flynn cold feelings memories I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted. Gillian Flynn sobriety clear inspirational To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely. Gillian Flynn lovely dream 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 reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.' Gillian Flynn rocks darkness people I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. Gillian Flynn crush realizing thinking 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 real giving men Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. Gillian Flynn cat pain sleep I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. Gillian Flynn butterfly land beautiful Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person. Gillian Flynn shallow-person well-being mean Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. Gillian Flynn inviting enough worry Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids. Gillian Flynn orchids black dark It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked. Gillian Flynn humbling I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth. Gillian Flynn begging-you dancing hands
