Top 180 Krystal Sutherland Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “No, I was mauled by a rabid pigeon.” “And you were so scared that you shat your pants?”

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

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155. “Was it so bad to hold onto something that was broken?”

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156. “A girl, dressed in white, her fingertips dripping blood. “Oh my God,” I whispered. “Grey?” My oldest sister looked up at me. Her eyes were black and her white hair hung in filthy clumps around her face. “Run,” she said. She tried to take a step toward me but sank heavily to her knees. “He’s coming.”

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

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158. “She couldn’t help him, didn’t know how to help him, and that killed her. Not for the first time, she wished that his injuries were more obvious. That whatever swollen, infected thing inside his head that made him feel this way could be seen, could be sliced away, could be stitched up and covered with bandage like any other wound.”

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159. “If Grey were here, we’d likely be eating the tasting menu at Sketch and knocking back twenty-pound cocktails like they were candy.”

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160. “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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161. “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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162. “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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163. “Grace was a lost soul, a ghost adrift, the human embodiment of second-hand smoke.”

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

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

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166. “In the end, we all crave a darkness that matches the one within us.”

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167. “Human beings could not be mended with gold seams.”

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168. “Losing him the first time had sucked, and had taught her a valuable life lesson: If you didn’t let people get close to you, they couldn’t hurt you when they left.”

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

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

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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “Oh yes. The losing of the virginity. I’d momentarily forgotten about it.”

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176. “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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177. “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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178. “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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179. “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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180. “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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181. “Why is it, I thought, that we’re so willing to hurt the ones we care about the most?”

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182. “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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183. “Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women.”

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184. “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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185. “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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