Gillian Flynn Quotes

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

There's a dark side to everything.

I like characters who are contradictory.

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.