Top 180 Krystal Sutherland Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “What other beautiful things had fear been hiding from her?”

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102. “We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy, Grace. Reading Harry Potter is what is right.”

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103. “She moved through the world like no other woman I knew.”

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104. “This seemed like such a good and noble idea ten minutes ago,” Tyler said. “I forgot that I’m not a good or noble person.”

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105. “As soon as you admitted to loving someone, you suddenly had a lot to lose. You freely gave them a way to hurt you.”

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106. “Cate’s codependence on you and your respect for authority are equally repulsive. Give me your phone.”

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107. “How could you save people who were drowning in themselves?”

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108. “Fears can’t become full-blown phobias if you avoid them, and phobias can’t kill you if you don’t have them.”

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109. “I was amazed at how quickly a person could become an essential part of your life.”

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110. “They’re my sisters,” I said quietly. Sometimes, asking to see them – but especially asking to see Grey – felt like asking for permission to take up shooting heroin as an extracurricular activity. “They aren’t going to let anything bad happen to me.”

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111. “We didn’t have friends, because we didn’t need them. We moved through the corridors like sharks, the other little fish parting around us, whispering behind our backs.”

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112. “Your life would be happier if you didn’t know.” “Knowledge is power.” “And ignorance is bliss.”

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113. “That’s what getting to know someone is about. Judging them.”

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114. “Sometimes you’re brave if you run. Sometimes you’re brave if you stay. It’s important to know the difference.”

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115. “I think you can love people and still disapprove of stuff they do.”

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116. “She was dressed like that old Cake song, in a short skirt and a long jacket. Two.”

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117. “Wow, she was obessed,” Vivi said as she turned the pages. “She never talked about it. She never wanted us to talk about it either. And the whole time she was scrapbooking like a bored housewife?”

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118. “Sometimes, asking to see them – but especially asking to see Grey – felt like asking for permission to take up shooting heroin as an extracurricular activity.”

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119. “What you don’t understand,” she said to me once when I told her how dangerous it was, “is that I am the thing in the dark.”

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120. “Because you’re dead and the dead are always starving... You’re dead. Food can never sate your hunger, can never fill the emptiness inside you.”

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121. “We’re all just chemical hearts. Does that make love any less brilliant? I don’t think so.”

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122. “No one who has a good relationship with their parents ever becomes a model. Even if they’re as ridiculously good-looking as me.”

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123. “Oh yes. The losing of the virginity. I’d momentarily forgotten about it.”

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124. “I stayed alert while I ran home, the way women do, one AirPod out, a sharp slice of adrenaline carving up the line of my spine.”

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125. “The magic had started to degrade, and Rosemary had slowly but surely become thoroughly, gruesomely human. And there were few things worse in this world than humans.”

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126. “The quiet, bright one who loved science and geography and had a natural flair for mathematics. The one who wanted desperately, above all else, to be unremarkable.”

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127. “I could rule this place with a small lobster army’, Esther muttered to herself. ‘Thirty, forty lobsters, tops, and I could be queen.”

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128. “Grace was a lost soul, a ghost adrift, the human embodiment of second-hand smoke.”

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129. “You shouldn’t be afraid of the truth. It’ll set you free, right?”

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130. “Plus, how can she be your soul mate? Didn’t you tell me she’d never read Harry Potter? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with someone like that? I mean, for God’s sake, think of your children. What kind of environment would they be growing up in with such a mother?”

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131. “One day,” he said, “everybody’s gonna wake up and realize their parents are human beings, just like them. Sometimes they’re good people, sometimes they’re not.”

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132. “I pressed my fingertips lightly to her throat, right at the point where her heartbeat sprang beneath her skin. It was how we’d slept as children, our finger resting on one another’s pulse points, a cross-hatched thicket of wrists and necks and hands.”

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133. “Even the very best people found ways to hurt the ones they loved.”

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134. “Why is it, I thought, that we’re so willing to hurt the ones we care about the most?”

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135. “She’s cute. In a weird, Janis Joplin, will probably die at twenty-seven kind of way.”

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136. “Somewhere, not far from where I stood, my sisters had been dragged through a crack in the world. I didn’t know how to follow. The one person who did – a little girl with rotten limbs – was, I suspected, already dead. Tyler might be too.”

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137. “Because you’re weak. Because you let lesser people push you around. Because you are afraid of how powerful you are and you shrink away from.”

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138. “It’s better to live in fear than to not live at all.”

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139. “Maybe Dracula wasn’t a vampire, just a raging alcoholic who was constantly hungover.”

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140. “Maybe if you dealt with what happened to you as a kid,” I said, unable to look at her, “you wouldn’t need to numb yourself with drugs and booze.” We all had different ways of coping, but Vivi’s were the most destructive, filled with powders and poisons designed to lessen the pain of a tragedy we didn’t understand.”

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141. “A lobster had been placed on the seat across from her, its black beady eyes locked on hers. I will kill everyone you love, it rasped in lobster-tongue.”

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142. “I hate to say this, but if you’re reading this, I might already be dead.”

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143. “You can’t project your fantasies onto people and expect them to play the part, Henry. People aren’t empty vessels for you to fill up with your daydreams.”

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144. “We all knew the impact of our beauty and we all dealt with it in different ways.”

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145. “I somehow knew, in that moment, that Grace Town was a jagged piece of glass that I’d cut myself on again and again if I let myself get involved with her. That the way forward would be pockmarked by sadness and grief and jealousy.”

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146. “On her own, Grace could be effervescent, illuminating the entire room with her intelligence and wit. Around others she seemed to lose her luster.”

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147. “What monstrous creatures humans would be if they could not die.”

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148. “By the time the police arrived, the woman’s eyes were wide and faraway, her limbs so liquid she could no longer stand and had to be carried out, limp as a drunk, by three officers.”

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149. “It was small and dim inside, the floral wallpaper lit by apricot light bulbs that hung in jars from the ceiling.”

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150. “Good things come out of first drafts sometimes.”

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