Top 70 Freida McFadden Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Freida McFadden

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

— Freida McFadden

3. “But he seems nice. Harmless. Like he wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

— Freida McFadden

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

— Freida McFadden

5. “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.”

— Freida McFadden

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

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

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10. “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.”

— Freida McFadden

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

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

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13. “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.”

— Freida McFadden

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

— Freida McFadden

15. “My mother always said not to leave the house in shoes you can’t walk a mile in.”

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16. “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.”

— Freida McFadden

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

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

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

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

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21. “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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22. “Then again, plenty of men are idiots.”

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23. “After all, there’s nothing that binds two people like a shared secret.”

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

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

— Freida McFadden

26. “Dad always says that if you’re going to do something wrong, at least be smart enough not to let anybody see you do it.”

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27. “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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28. “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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29. “After all, ten years ago, he saved my life.”

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

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31. “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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32. “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.”

— Freida McFadden

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

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

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35. “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.”

— Freida McFadden

36. “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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37. “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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38. “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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39. “I can’t say to him what I’m really thinking, which is that this house gives me the creeps. Maybe Victoria loved it here, but I don’t. And for that matter, his wife gives me the creeps too. There’s something about her and that blank expression that terrifies me. It’s an awful thing to say about a woman who has been through something horrible, but I can’t help it.”

— Freida McFadden

40. “Although isn’t there another side to everyone?”

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

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

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43. “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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44. “I could scream and yell all I wanted, and nobody would hear.”

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45. “Hey, it’s Tim Reese. I got your number from the parent directory. Hope that’s not too creepy.”

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46. “I’ve gotten involved with my employer only one time before, and I will never, ever go down that road again. I’d rather yank my own tooth out with a pair of pliers.”

— Freida McFadden

47. “Do you know those movies about the scary cult of, like, creepy kids who can read minds and worship the devil and live in the cornfields or something? Well, if they were casting for one of those movies, this girl would get the part. They wouldn’t even have to audition her. They would take one look at her and be like, Yes, you are creepy girl number three.”

— Freida McFadden

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

— Freida McFadden

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

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

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