Top 180 Krystal Sutherland Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Grace was a lost soul, a ghost adrift, the human embodiment of second-hand smoke.”

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

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153. “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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154. “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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155. “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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156. “Even the very best people found ways to hurt the ones they loved.”

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

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

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

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

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162. “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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163. “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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164. “I hate to say this, but if you’re reading this, I might already be dead.”

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

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

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170. “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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171. “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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172. “Good things come out of first drafts sometimes.”

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

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175. “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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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. “People don’t have soulmates, they make them.”

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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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