Freida McFadden > Quotes

“He has no idea this is just the beginning.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“I believe that any human being is capable of terrible things if you push them hard enough.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“Dad always says that if you’re going to do something wrong, at least be smart enough not to let anybody see you do it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Locked Door

“How are you? The three most useless words in the universe of communication. Nobody who asks that question wants to know the answer. And nobody who answers ever tells the truth. “I’m fine, Paige.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“Then again, plenty of men are idiots.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“Sometimes people do exactly what you think they’re going to do, and they still manage to disappoint you.”
― Freida McFadden, The Inmate

“What do you like to read?”
“Books.”
“What kind of books?”
“The kind with words.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“How can you get rid of a book? That’s like throwing away knowledge.”
― Freida McFadden, The Devil Wears Scrubs

“My mother always says the only way two people can keep a secret,” she says, “is if one of them is dead.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“I initially wanted to hire a maid in hopes that she would become my replacement—that if Andrew fell in love with another woman, he would finally let me go. But that’s not why I hired Millie. That’s not why I gave her a copy of the key to the room. And that’s not why I left a bottle of pepper spray in the blue bucket in the closet. I hired her to kill him. She just doesn’t know it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“He’s almost perfect. And I hate his guts.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“Those are the four most beautiful words in the English language. You can go now.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“There’s something about this room that’s making a little ball of dread form in the pit of my stomach.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“You hiding drugs up there?” “No! Definitely not!” I just murdered somebody, that’s all. Sheesh.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“Although isn’t there another side to everyone?”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“Whatever else you can fake, it’s hard to fake being a genuinely kind person. It’s also exceedingly rare.”
― Freida McFadden, The Coworker

“I always help. I can never, ever walk away, even when I should.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“Liars fidget. The tone of their voice or speech patterns changes. Liars offer too much information, babbling on with excessive detail to convince themselves or others of what they are saying.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“Human beings don’t deal well with rejection. Back when our ancestors were hunters and gatherers, being ostracized from a tribe was akin to a death sentence. For that reason, rejection is experienced by human beings as being incredibly painful. Studies using functional MRI have shown the same areas of the brain become activated both during rejection and during real physical pain.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“I look like I’m in college, and I feel like I’m fifty. Story of my life.”
― Freida McFadden, The Inmate

“My husband is a monster,” I say aloud. “He tortures me. He holds me hostage in the attic.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“Digging a grave is hard work.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“This,” he says, “is the bystander effect. It’s a social psychology phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“You know things are seriously bad when even ice cream doesn’t help.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I could just barely make out the word he said. Pericolo. Whatever that means.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“There’s something in his expression that sends a chill down my spine. And then he shakes his head, almost imperceptibly. Almost like he’s trying to warn me. But he doesn’t say a word.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“The last thing I see when I leave the bedroom is Wendy standing over Douglas’s dead body. And she’s smiling.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“If you don't take care of your teeth," she continues, "then you lose the privilege to have teeth”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“This perfectly demonstrates diffusion of responsibility in a group.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“Psychological studies have demonstrated that men have more amorous feelings towards women wearing red than any other color. They are more likely to express the desire to take a woman wearing red out on a date, and are also willing to spend more money on the date. Moreover, the men in these studies could not identify the origin of these feelings. They just liked the girl in red.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie