Top 180 Krystal Sutherland Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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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152. “Human beings could not be mended with gold seams.”

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153. “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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154. “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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155. “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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156. “People don’t have soulmates, they make them.”

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

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159. “I saw him today too. Twice. He was at my school. Tall shirtless dude cosplaying a decomposing demon Minotaur.”

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160. “For days at a time, she disappears off the face of the earth, okay? Won’t answer calls, misses work, dates, fittings. Everyone else got used to it. It was part of her mystery. Would she show up or wouldn’t she? All very exciting. But it sucks when you’re dating her. Your sister was a lousy girlfriend.”

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161. “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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162. “We each had black eyes and hair as white as milk. We each had enchanting four-letter names: Grey, Vivi, Iris. We walked to school together. We ate lunch together. We walked home together. 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. “My anxiety was a physical weight resting heavy inside my skull.”

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164. “Some people are born with an ear for music, some people are born with a talent for drawing, some people... have a built-in radar that tells them where a comma needs to go in a sentence.”

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165. “Grey was lightning, Vivi was thunder and I was the sea in the tempest.”

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166. “People change. There’s no way you’re the same person you were when you were sixteen.”

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

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169. “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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170. “Esther wanted to make her brother understand that he was the sun. That he was bright and burning and brilliant, and without his warmth, without his gravity to orient herself around, she would be nothing. She wished they had that psychic twin thing, that she could push images into his head and make him see. Make him see that he was everything.”

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

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173. “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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174. “It was you who taught me that oblivion is our reward for being human, that the very fabric of reality itself is kind enough to ensure that all our sins and silliness will be stripped away.”

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175. “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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176. “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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177. “How could death not be appealing, when the only thing that gave him comfort in life was being unconscious?”

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178. “Why did someone who was supposed to love me look at me like that?”

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179. “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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180. “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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