{"author":"Gillian Flynn","author_id":"Gillian+Flynn","total_quotes":91,"quotes":[{"text":"She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["cancer","cigarette","cigarettes","death","inevitable","smoke","smoking"],"id":8521,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["advice","anger","communicate","communication","compromise","divorce","heartbreak","loss","love","marriage","marriage-advice","newlyweds"],"id":13635,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"The worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can’t anymore. I don’t know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. 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.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["reality"],"id":17720,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"There will be days you wish you’d never done it. And thosewill be the good times, when it’s only days of regret and notmonths.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["days","months","regret"],"id":19436,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["love"],"id":23926,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["illness","sick","women"],"id":26692,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["death","depression","pain","shadow"],"id":27909,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["women","men","violence "],"id":44797,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.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. 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.It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.I would have done anything to feel real again.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["criticism","gone-girl","society"],"id":46604,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"They thought more before nine a.M. Than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["bad-memories","broken-home","cherry-pie","childhood","childhood-memories","divorce","funny","iconoclast","ironic","irony","logic","memories","over-thinking","patriotism","psychologist","psychology","simplicity","symbolism","the-mind","thoughts"],"id":47006,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":91,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}