Top 160 Freida McFadden Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “All I ever wanted is to spend the rest of my life with you.”

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102. “I imagine what would happen if I went downstairs to the kitchen and boiled some water, then brought it up here and threw it in his face. That would change his life forever. The burns he would sustain would be permanent – his face would be scarred for the rest of his life. He might lose his vision. He’d never cheat on me again, that’s for sure.”

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103. “If you are going on a trip, it is important to pack socks.”

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104. “The director of the psychiatric ward is my father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former college roommate.”

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105. “It’s possible I’m being unfair to people with beards, but I always feel like they’re hiding something.”

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106. “And as I put the finishing touches on my husband’s grave in the woods, I recite to myself the poem he once wrote for me many years ago, back when I was fifteen years old and he was my English teacher fresh out of college who swore to me I was his soulmate: Life nearly passed me by Then she Young and alive With smooth hands And pink cheeks Showed me myself Took away my breath With cherry-red lips Gave me life once again.”

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107. “That’s what it takes to catch your prey. Patience. We can all learn a lot from the soft-shelled turtle.”

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108. “Sometimes I try to kid myself that I’m an adult now, but how can I be an adult when I still feel fifteen half the time?”

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109. “You know things are seriously bad when even ice cream doesn’t help.”

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110. “That’s how I learned that there are earthquakes on the moon. And they’re called moonquakes.”

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111. “Sometimes hardship brings out the worst in people.”

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112. “I take a sip of the expensive wine Brock poured for me. The expensive bottles are by far better than the cheap ones, but I can never detect all the subtle notes of honeydew or lavender or whatever. He keeps asking me, and now I’m lying and telling him that I can tell, but I really can’t. I’m faking wine.”

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113. “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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114. “He did do a terrible thing,” the detective says. “I’ve never met anyone who had over thirty overdue library books before.” I grab a tissue from the box on the table and dab at my eyes. “I mean, two or three, yes, I can see how that could happen. Over ten would be bad enough. But over thirty?” “I know.” He sighs. “It’s the sort of thing you only see once in a lifetime as a cop, and you hope to never see it again.”

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115. “What a great meet-cute. I can already imagine telling the story to our children. This jerk was trying to kiss me, and that, kids, is how I met your father.”

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116. “So” – Lisa slides the knife back into the wooden block and straightens up, her blue eyes wide and anxious – “can you help me, Millie?” “Yes,” I say. “I believe I can.”

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117. “Who you are is not something you did when you were a teenager.”

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118. “We have an expensive hospital bed paid for by insurance in the basement, and that’s where you want to spend the night. Trust me.”

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119. “I remember when I was a little kid, I felt like anything that was wrong, my mom could hug me and make it right again. But there is no way for her to make any of this right again. Part of growing up is figuring out that your parents don’t have that ability anymore.”

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120. “Is it such an awful thing to want retribution against people who have wronged you?”

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121. “Human beings don’t deal well with rejection.”

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122. “Maybe I heard them wrong. Maybe instead of cutting my throat, the stranger on the other end of the line actually wants to cut the costs of my car insurance.”

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

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124. “I’d rather yank my own tooth out with a pair of pliers.”

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125. “If I grabbed her head and gave it a solid twist to the left, I could break her neck. It wouldn’t even be hard to do.”

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126. “By the end of this night, if I have not stabbed Suzette with one of these forks, it will only be because I’m not sure which one to use to do it.”

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127. “The first time I heard about Wilhelmina Calloway, the girl who would become Millie Accardi, was when she was being charged with the murder of the son of my employers. I had no doubt that he deserved the justice Millie doled out, but the jury didn’t see it that way. She went to prison for his murder.”

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128. “So you see, when I stabbed Krista that night, I wasn’t saving Blake’s life. I was saving my own. I bet you five bucks Krista never saw that coming.”

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129. “This cat is not my cat. It is a stray cat. I should probably call an animal shelter or something, but instead, I bought a crate of cat food. And now, apparently, I’m feeding the cat.”

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130. “I love you, Brooke. That was what he said to me just a few hours before he tried to kill me.”

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131. “How does somebody get to the point where their brain stops functioning like a normal brain? That their reality completely breaks from the reality that every other person in the world lives in? And what’s to stop it from happening to anyone else?”

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132. “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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133. “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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134. “Whatever else you can fake, it’s hard to fake being a genuinely kind person. It’s also exceedingly rare.”

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135. “The reason I feel connected to Daisy is because she’s exactly like me.”

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136. “We are all at the mercy of that terrible man.”

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137. “I believe that any human being is capable of terrible things if you push them hard enough.”

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138. “Isolation is not necessarily dangerous.”

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139. “The third in a series usually isn’t that great, so it’s not his fault.”

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140. “I don’t need a hero. I just need a decent guy.”

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141. “I did tell you!” I might be forgetting things, but I remember our conversation. “I told you I was pregnant.” “Pregnant?” She looks down at the test in her hand and then back at my face. “Alice, this is a Covid test.” “What?” I gasp. “How could that be?” “It literally says Covid-19 Ag right on the test!”

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142. “This,” he says, “is the bystander effect. It’s a social psychology phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present.”

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143. “Two people can’t keep a secret,” she says. “Not unless one of them is dead. It’s just a fact. I always work alone.”

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144. “I am so lucky. I have a beautiful house, a fulfilling career, and a husband who is kind and mild mannered and incredibly handsome. And as Nate pulls the car onto the road and starts driving in the direction of the school, all I can think to myself is that I hope a truck blows through a stop sign, plows into the Honda, and kills us both instantly.”

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145. “It reminds me of the fact that I’m still the same person I was before. I’m still Charly. I’m not just some brain-damaged cripple.”

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146. “How are you? The three most useless words in the universe of communication. Nobody who asks that question wants to know the answer.”

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147. “You like spending time with your books more than you like spending time with me. I don’t think it was true, but if it was, could anyone blame her?”

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148. “A Diet Coke?” Kevin seems affronted. “That’s boring. Get a real drink.”

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149. “Hello, Hannah.” His voice fills the room above me. I cringe at the familiar sound of it. “I thought I might find you here.” She’s silent for a moment. When she speaks again, her voice is shaking. “Hi, Daddy.”

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150. “Miss Calloway,” Detective Ramirez says, “Wendy Garrick is the one who told us about your affair with her husband.”

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