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Gillian Flynn Quotes: 6

  • There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

    Gone Girl
  • Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

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

    Gone Girl
  • 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?

    Gone Girl
  • ...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.

    Gone Girl
  • I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.

    The Grownup