Top 180 Krystal Sutherland Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “She was dressed like that old Cake song, in a short skirt and a long jacket. Two.”

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

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

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

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

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158. “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.”

— Krystal Sutherland

159. “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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160. “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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161. “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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162. “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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163. “Oh yes. The losing of the virginity. I’d momentarily forgotten about it.”

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164. “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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165. “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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166. “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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167. “We all knew the impact of our beauty and we all dealt with it in different ways.”

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168. “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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169. “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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170. “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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171. “Why is it, I thought, that we’re so willing to hurt the ones we care about the most?”

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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “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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176. “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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177. “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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178. “I did not come this far to only come this far.”

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

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180. “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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181. “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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182. “Tyler was pacing behind us. “You two are supposed to be exonerating me, not critiquing hideous decor choices.”

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183. “In a fair world, Zara would be able to harness the power of her grief. She would use it to shatter every glass and plate in this restaurant. She would use it to scream so loud that everyone in the city could hear her. She would use it to tear open the world and reach back through time and pull Savannah from the jaws of the universe.”

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

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