Top 180 Krystal Sutherland Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “How could you save people who were drowning in themselves?”

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152. “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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153. “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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154. “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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155. “We collected an alphabet of acronyms, but no treatment or therapy ever seemed to be able to reset us to how we’d been before it happened.”

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156. “The sudden violence of it had made me hyperventilate. For years, as my father’s delusions had swollen inside his mind, I’d become more and more afraid that he would hurt us, put a pillow over our faces while we slept.”

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157. “Day by day, room by room, they stripped back the house he’d lived in, raised a family in, watched his wife die in, until there was nothing left but pockets of old air bound up by walls.”

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

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160. “The trouble was, I did know what I wanted from Grace Town. I wanted to sleep with her, sure. I wanted her to be my girlfriend. A few years from now, I wanted to marry her. And then, when we were old, I wanted to drink peppermint tea and read Harry Potter to our grandchildren with her on the veranda of an old house in the countryside as we watched a summer storm roll toward us. Was that so much to ask?”

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161. “You know how you sometimes have the most exhausting day and you can’t wait to get home and fall into bed and sleep for hours? I feel that way about life. There are people out there who read books about vampires and they crave immortality, but sometimes I’m so thankful that at the end of it all, we get to sleep forever. No more pain. No more exhaustion. Death is the reward for having lived.”

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

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164. “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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165. “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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166. “When you have anxiety, you don’t really get to have deep breaths. Your ribs are too small to let your shrivelled lungs expand beyond half their size.”

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

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168. “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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169. “The love Grace had described was the kind that transcended time and space. In any universe, in any life, it would always be them and I would always be the after. The lesser.”

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170. “Something must first be shattered for it to be put back together in a way that made it more beautiful.”

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171. “Drinking before football is going to be 95% of my strategy. And the other 5%? 1% pure, unadulterated athletic talent. 4% luck.”

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172. “I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”

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173. “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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174. “Here,” Grace said as she opened the book again and tore out the page with the poem on it. I flinched as though I were in actual pain. “You should have it, if you like it. Pretty poetry is wasted on me.” I took the paper from her and folded it and slipped it into my pocket, half of me horrified that she’d injured a book, the other half of me elated that she’d so willingly given me something that clearly meant a lot to her.”

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

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176. “Just because a creep was stalking us and just because a man with black eyes who smelled like death had been asking after her didn’t mean something bad had happened to Grey.”

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177. “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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178. “Tyler was pacing behind us. “You two are supposed to be exonerating me, not critiquing hideous decor choices.”

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179. “Forever. The school had a long memory when it came to the Hollow girls, and it had been my burden to bear since the month both of my sisters had skipped town.”

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180. “No, I was mauled by a rabid pigeon.” “And you were so scared that you shat your pants?”

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