Freida McFadden > Quotes

“She wants me to stay out of it. Mind my own business. Unfortunately, I’ve never been very good at that.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“Two people can’t keep a secret,” she says. “Not unless one of them is dead. It’s just a fact. I always work alone.”
― Freida McFadden, One by One

“The door isn’t stuck. It’s locked.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“As strange as Dawn’s schedule is, it’s even stranger that today she isn’t following it. I can’t help but think that Dawn’s absence must signify something ominous. After all, Dawn is never late. Never.”
― Freida McFadden, The Coworker

“Something terrible has happened in this house.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“I recite to myself the poem he once wrote for me many years ago, back when I was fifteen years old and he was my English teacher”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“The hardest thing about Liam is that when he says “I love you,” I can’t tell whether that’s a lie too.”
― Freida McFadden, The Perfect Son

“Do you want me to… go?” “No,” he says. “I want you to stay.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“I remember when I was a little kid, I felt like anything that was wrong, my mom could hug me and make it right again. But there is no way for her to make any of this right again. Part of growing up is figuring out that your parents don’t have that ability anymore.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“The first time I heard about Wilhelmina Calloway, the girl who would become Millie Accardi, was when she was being charged with the murder of the son of my employers. I had no doubt that he deserved the justice Millie doled out, but the jury didn’t see it that way. She went to prison for his murder.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“So”—Lisa slides the knife back into the wooden block and straightens up, her blue eyes wide and anxious—“can you help me, Millie?” “Yes,” I say. “I believe I can.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“No puedo fiarme de nadie, salvo de mí misma.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“What kind of books?” “The kind with words.” Oh, so that’s how it’s going to be, Cecelia.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“(For God’s sake, what multimillionaire walks around with imperfect teeth? Does he think this is England?)”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“He doesn’t care if all we do is kiss.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“He rips his eyes away from the portrait and joins me by the bookcase. He looks over my shoulder at the photograph on the back of the book. “Adrienne Hale,” he reads off the back cover. “Isn’t she that shrink who got murdered?”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“The thing I really need to worry about? Addie is in my husband’s class too.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“That is your choice. But even if you do not know your fortune, that does not keep it from coming true.” “If you know your fortune, are you able to stop it? Or do you just have to try to look surprised when it happens?”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Bernie liked his corn dogs and curly fries. You did not have to be a psychic to know it would do him in.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“There is a crash that seems to be coming from the bathroom, followed by a splash of water, but I ignore it. If Russell tried to get out of the bathroom and fell, he’s just going to have to get up on his own.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“Thank you very much for the information. And I’ll certainly be coming tonight.” I will be coming tonight.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“He’s just teasing her, but no woman wants to be compared unfavorably to another. He’s an idiot if he doesn’t know that. Then again, plenty of men are idiots.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“How are you?” 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

“My mother was a religious woman. That’s how I know that on the sixth day, both man and serpent were created. You know—the snake that eventually convinced Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit and got them kicked out of the Garden of Eden forever? That’s why the number six represents both man and the evil that weakens him.”
― Freida McFadden, One by One

“I’ll save my daughter if it takes every ounce of my strength. If it kills me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“I hang up the phone and drop it down onto the center of the bed. Back when I was a kid, we used to have a real phone. A landline. And when you were mad at someone, you could slam it down. It’s just not the same with a cell phone.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“I love you, Brooke. That was what he said to me just a few hours before he tried to kill me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Inmate

“I don’t have time to be a murder suspect.”
― Freida McFadden, The Locked Door

“I watch him walk away until the sound of his boots crunching on the leaves vanishes into the wind.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“how good I had it before I was married to a psychopath who would lock me in a room overnight just because I missed a hairdresser appointment.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid