Gillian Flynn Quotes

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

I played one game, and one game played me.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

This is not our choice but this is the law of the politics. You always reciprocate. Positively, negatively, but this is something which you cannot change. It was not invented by us. It is the law of international relations.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.

I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.

Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.

She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him. He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was every boy that told her she was too freaky, who had laughed at her, or just wanted her to shut up and make out. He was a thousand times less real than Roiben.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

She would be ready, but she would always make him wait.

I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.