Shamus Flynn Quotes

I glanced up at the trees too.
Dead. Every one of them gray and white, needles rusted, leaves shriveled at the tips of branches. All the life sucked out of them. Not just the trees. All the plants, ferns, grasses and brush were shriveled, brown, barren.
As if a month of winter had set down right here in my driveway and gone on a killing spree.
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"Love what you've done with the landscape," Cody said. "You could open your own business, you know."
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"The hell you talking about, Miller?" I asked Cody.
"Yard care. You're poison and weed whacker all in one. You can call it Death to All Shrubbery. ~ Devon Monk

... it's a nice day's work when you make a lot of people smile. ~ Gillian Flynn

Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment - at least one moment - when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name? ~ Gillian Flynn

All this could have been avoided if I were less pretty. ~ Gillian Flynn

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again. ~ Gillian Flynn

He's calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That's what men do: They try to make it sound like you are the Cool Girl so you will bow to their wishes. ~ Gillian Flynn

this town is sometimes too much, so desperate and so in denial. ~ Gillian Flynn

There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink. ~ Gillian Flynn

I think it's fair to say I am a writer. I'm using this journal to get better: to hone my skills, to collect details and observations. To show don't tell and all that other writerly crap. ~ Gillian Flynn

It's not what you're thinkin!" Jennah squawks, turning pink. "My God, you men only have one thing on the brain! We went for a walk in the park!"

"Well, we didn't exactly do very much walking," I interject, determined to wind her up.

Harry begins to laugh.

Jennah gasps in outrage. "We sat and watched the swans on the lake, thank you very much, Harry!"

Harry is still laughing. "Now could that possibly be a euphemism for--"

Jennah yelps and whacks Harry on the back of the head. Harry cries out in mock outrage. "Aargh! Is this how she treats you, Flynn? Whacking you if you don't make the bed in the morning, whacking you if you don't put the loo seat down--! ~ Tabitha Suzuma

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so ~ Gillian Flynn

...Life does not follow the continuous flow of logical argument and that one often has to risk moving beyond the limits of the rational in order to live life to the fullest. ~ Thomas R. Flynn

It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question ... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not. ~ Nick Flynn

My story for the day was a limp sort of evil. ~ Gillian Flynn

I start to move through the flat, but I can't believe I'm here. I don't know how to survive the hours until I can sleep. ~ Flynn Berry

Are we going to get killed?"
Cam scoped out the dingy room. No doubt there was at least one shotgun behind the bar and a few armed patrons, but no one struck him as particularly dangerous. "Not likely."
She kept her palm on the table and covertly pointed to a guy in a biker jacket with a large skull smoking a blunt. "But possible?"
He shrugged. "It is Friday night. ~ Avery Flynn

That night at the Brooklyn party, I was playing the girl who was in style, the girl a man like Nick wants: the Cool Girl. Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she's hosting the world's biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. ~ Gillian Flynn

Three minutes, so I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song - is there ever a time you turn on the radio and don't hear a Tom Petty song? - ~ Gillian Flynn

She was humming something melancholy and familiar. I strained to make it out - a folk song? a lullabye? - and then realized it was the theme to M*A*S*H. Suicide is painless. I went downstairs. ~ Gillian Flynn

Always have a backup plan to the backup plan. ~ Gillian Flynn

You promised me forever, Flynn Beckett. I want my forever. ~ Ann Lister

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense ~ Errol Flynn

You won't find happiness by hiding from life, Flynn" - Rami ~ Tabitha Suzuma

She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way. ~ Gillian Flynn

I spent a long time playing that game," she said. "Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn't, and you know what? It's lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one's ours. It's all we've got. ~ Victoria Schwab

It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time. ~ Gillian Flynn

If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose. ~ Gillian Flynn

In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it. ~ Stephen Lang

That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller. ~ Gillian Flynn

But facts were facts, and people didn't get to turn Amy into everyone's beloved best friend just because it was emotionally expedient. ~ Gillian Flynn

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house. ~ Vince Flynn

Let's quit our jobs and fuck all day. ~ Cara McKenna

I'm so much happier now that I'm dead. Technically missing. Soon to be presumed dead. Gone. And my lazy lying shitting oblivious husband will go to prison for my murder. Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder. Let the punishment fit the crime. ~ Gillian Flynn

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago. ~ Lara Flynn Boyle

I volunteered at a homeless shelter in preparation for 'Being Flynn,' and when I'm walking along the Bowery, that's the first thing that comes to mind. That's a nice memory. ~ Paul Dano

I'm going to f*** you long and hard right here in this kitchen. ~ Avery Flynn

Because you were everything. You weren't one night, one experience I had to record for proof that it happened. You were so much more than that. I didn't write about you because I took it for granted that I would always have you. ~ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people. ~ John T. Flynn

Shamus shrugged. "It's all about energy exchange. It could always go the other way, me feeding a plant instead of drawing the life out of it."
"Do that often?"
Shamus looked at me over his shoulder. "No."
"Why not? Have something against plants?"
"No, but I haven't met a vegetable good enough to sacrifice a year of my life for. ~ Devon Monk

During an abusive episode, pets often react by shivering or shaking, cowering, hiding, or urinating - similar physical manifestations of stress that are displayed by humans. Therefore, it is important to understand that both women and animals are victimized by the abuse of the other. A man's violence toward an animal also hurts his partner (and children), just as his violence toward her also hurts the animal. ~ Clif Flynn

The woman's entire music collection is formed from Pottery Barn compilations. ~ Gillian Flynn