Freida McFadden > Quotes

“you”
― Freida McFadden, The Perfect Son

“used to get calls like that all the time, sometimes with just silence, but sometimes with a string of threats on the other line. But I haven’t gotten a call like that since… well, it’s been several months. I doubt it’s that same person—they have no reason to hate me anymore.”
― Freida McFadden, The Coworker

“Why…” I clear my throat. “Why is the lock to this bedroom on the outside rather than the inside?”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“They say there’s a thin line between love and hate. In those few seconds between when Joel stood up and when the door to the restaurant slammed behind him, my love for Joel Broder started to morph into hatred.”
― Freida McFadden, The Ex

“If she were pretty, she could get away with more. But she’s not.”
― Freida McFadden, The Locked Door

“Kim Healey is my best friend at work, which sadly means that she’s my best friend in general since work has increasingly become my entire life.”
― Freida McFadden, The Coworker

“She completely tricked me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“I sacrificed something important to me to get you a great present!”
― Freida McFadden, The Gift

“So what do you like to watch on television?” I ask, hoping she’ll take the hint. She frowns like I offended her. “I prefer to read.” “That’s great! What do you like to read?” “Books.” “What kind of books?” “The kind with words.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“They taught me to fish, he’s fond of saying.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“A mental health diagnosis is not a death sentence.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“Right in the middle of insisting that I am completely fine, I stop talking.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“I have eaten lunch alone every day”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“and I’m completely baffled. Seriously, where did she”
― Freida McFadden, Baby City

“Hey, it’s Tim Reese. I got your number from the parent directory. Hope that’s not too creepy.”
― Freida McFadden, The Inmate

“Except I can’t help but think that right now I have much worse problems than my blood pressure.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“When you’re smiling, people can hear it in your voice. I always smile during my sales calls—smile before you dial.”
― Freida McFadden, The Coworker

“never met anyone genuinely special before. And now I’m thirty-eight, and I’m meeting my soulmate for the first time, and she’s only sixteen.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“conveniently at adult eye level, with the generic brands placed down by your knees. Sugary cereals or other items meant to appeal to children are placed at eye level for children. Even the giant size of the shopping carts is intended to encourage more purchases. “Even the music is meant to manipulate us,” I explain to Luke. “A study of supermarket”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“Brooke, listen to me.” Tim squeezes my hand as he looks me right in the eyes. “I haven’t seen you in ten years. In that time, I’ve dated a fair number of girls. But it never worked out—it couldn’t. And it was all because I couldn’t stop thinking about you. Anyone else I dated, it wouldn’t be fair to them.” His Adam’s apple bobs. “I’ll never feel about anyone else the way I feel about you.”
― Freida McFadden, The Inmate

“Then I have to decide if I’ll forgive him. I probably will. It gets easier each time, and I have to admit, I don’t know what I would do without him.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Sometimes I try to kid myself that I’m an adult now, but how can I be an adult when I still feel fifteen half the time?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“If you are going on a trip, it is important to pack socks.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“No one likes their mother-in-law, right?”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“We never left it in the trunk after all.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Human beings don’t deal well with rejection.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“If you knew what was going on inside that kid’s head, you would be scared too.”
― Freida McFadden, The Perfect Son

“How does somebody get to the point where their brain stops functioning like a normal brain? That their reality completely breaks from the reality that every other person in the world lives in? And what’s to stop it from happening to anyone else?”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“But he seems nice. Harmless. Like he wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“For example, I asked him how often the refrigerator was cleaned. He looked surprised. So I explained to him that many bacteria such as Listeria can easily grow at cold temperatures. I had quite a lot of data on it, but when I tried to share those data with Seth, he didn’t seem to be interested.”
― Freida McFadden, The Coworker