Gillian Flynn Quotes

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

One of my biggest fears is thinking that there are people in my house when I'm home alone.

In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

Nothing matters if we aren't safe.

I don't like being in houses alone.

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

I think I need security.