Top 70 Freida McFadden Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I initially wanted to hire a maid in hopes that she would become my replacement – that if Andrew fell in love with another woman, he would finally let me go. But that’s not why I hired Millie. That’s not why I gave her a copy of the key to the room. And that’s not why I left a bottle of pepper spray in the blue bucket in the closet. I hired her to kill him. She just doesn’t know it.”

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2. “Sometimes people do exactly what you think they’re going to do, and they still manage to disappoint you.”

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3. “There’s something about this room that’s making a little ball of dread form in the pit of my stomach.”

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4. “At times like these, I wish I could talk to my mother. It’s like a deep ache inside my chest.”

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5. “My husband is a monster,” I say aloud. “He tortures me. He holds me hostage in the attic.”

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6. “He has no idea this is just the beginning.”

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7. “After all, my mother always said that the only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them is dead.”

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8. “I could just barely make out the word he said. Pericolo. Whatever that means.”

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9. “This perfectly demonstrates diffusion of responsibility in a group.”

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10. “Those are the four most beautiful words in the English language. You can go now.”

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11. “How are you? The three most useless words in the universe of communication. Nobody who asks that question wants to know the answer. And nobody who answers ever tells the truth. “I’m fine, Paige.”

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12. “How can you get rid of a book? That’s like throwing away knowledge.”

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13. “Mrs. Winchester is only a few inches taller than I am in my flats, but it feels like she’s much taller.”

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14. “Then again, plenty of men are idiots.”

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15. “It’s the very first time I’ve referred to myself as a doctor. It feels so weird. My tongue can’t seem to wrap itself around the words. I almost expect everyone to start snickering at me behind their hands that I just pretended I was really a doctor.”

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16. “What kind of books?” “The kind with words.” Oh, so that’s how it’s going to be, Cecelia.”

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17. “Psychological studies have demonstrated that men have more amorous feelings towards women wearing red than any other color. They are more likely to express the desire to take a woman wearing red out on a date, and are also willing to spend more money on the date. Moreover, the men in these studies could not identify the origin of these feelings. They just liked the girl in red.”

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18. “Whenever I pick up a book, it’s like an escape. For an hour or two, I get to be part of the book world instead of my own much more boring world.”

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19. “You don’t even realize you have everything until your whole life falls apart.”

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20. “I hang up the phone and drop it down onto the center of the bed. Back when I was a kid, we used to have a real phone. A landline. And when you were mad at someone, you could slam it down. It’s just not the same with a cell phone.”

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21. “I’m not dead. Did you think I was? That I’m some corpse my husband propped up in front of the second-floor window to frighten his guests? I’m not. I’m very much alive. And I’m afraid my husband is a murderer.”

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22. “Maybe we used up all our happiness. Maybe everybody only gets so much.”

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23. “Liars fidget. The tone of their voice or speech patterns changes. Liars offer too much information, babbling on with excessive detail to convince themselves or others of what they are saying.”

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24. “As Nina and I exchange details about tomorrow, I wonder if she would feel the same way about me if she knew I spent the last ten years of my life in prison.”

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25. “If someone truly wants to reach you, there’s always a way.”

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26. “Bernie liked his corn dogs and curly fries. You did not have to be a psychic to know it would do him in.”

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27. “He’s almost perfect. And I hate his guts.”

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28. “I always help. I can never, ever walk away, even when I should.”

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29. “Or more likely, he’s thinking about the dead body in the attic upstairs.”

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30. “Ugly men are good in bed, you know.”

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31. “I don’t quite understand how you can love somebody so much, yet so frequently want to throttle them.”

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32. “And where do the entrances to grocery stores usually leave you? In the produce department. You are surrounded by scents, textures, and bright colors that result in a surge of endorphins. The lighting of the store is manipulated to make fruits and vegetables appear at their brightest and best. And of course, the dairy aisle – one of the most popular locations to visit – is always hidden in the back of the store so you are forced to pass through a wealth of tempting products before reaching it.”

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33. “He is a narcissist and a psychopath, who likely killed at least thirty women without a trace of remorse. He is insane. He is a monster. He is also my father.”

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34. “And then he kisses me. And God help me, I kiss him back.”

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35. “As strange as Dawn’s schedule is, it’s even stranger that today she isn’t following it. I can’t help but think that Dawn’s absence must signify something ominous. After all, Dawn is never late. Never.”

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36. “It’s funny. When it’s right, you just know it’s right.”

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37. “You’re not in love with me anymore?” she bursts out. “How can.”

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38. “The hardest thing about Liam is that when he says “I love you,” I can’t tell whether that’s a lie too.”

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39. “Sometimes he seemed to understand me better than I understood myself.”

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40. “For example, I asked him how often the refrigerator was cleaned. He looked surprised. So I explained to him that many bacteria such as Listeria can easily grow at cold temperatures. I had quite a lot of data on it, but when I tried to share those data with Seth, he didn’t seem to be interested.”

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41. “My mother would say that boys don’t do anything nice for you if they’re not expecting something in return.”

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42. “Life is too short to read boring books.”

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43. “A mental health diagnosis is not a death sentence. All the patients in this unit are just trying to get better.”

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44. “Human beings don’t deal well with rejection. Back when our ancestors were hunters and gatherers, being ostracized from a tribe was akin to a death sentence. For that reason, rejection is experienced by human beings as being incredibly painful. Studies using functional MRI have shown the same areas of the brain become activated both during rejection and during real physical pain.”

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45. “Then I have to decide if I’ll forgive him. I probably will. It gets easier each time, and I have to admit, I don’t know what I would do without him.”

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46. “There are a bunch of mugs lined up by the sink. I pick up one that says “If you’re happy and you know it, thank your meds.”

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47. “The last thing I see when I leave the bedroom is Wendy standing over Douglas’s dead body. And she’s smiling.”

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48. “My mother always says the only way two people can keep a secret,” she says, “is if one of them is dead.”

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49. “So what do you like to watch on television?” I ask, hoping she’ll take the hint. She frowns like I offended her. “I prefer to read.” “That’s great! What do you like to read?” “Books.” “What kind of books?” “The kind with words.”

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50. “He rips his eyes away from the portrait and joins me by the bookcase. He looks over my shoulder at the photograph on the back of the book. “Adrienne Hale,” he reads off the back cover. “Isn’t she that shrink who got murdered?”

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