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

“For knowing too much, rather than too little. For a woman, neither was an acceptable way to be.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“I make jokes,” I say, “because it’s easier to pretend I’m not feeling what I’m feeling than to actually feel it.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“I’m not okay yet, but I’ll survive today. I’ll survive the days to come”
― Megan Lally, That's Not My Name

“Rich people, thought Judy—she thought this then, and she thinks it now—generally become most enraged when they sense they’re about to be held accountable for their wrongs.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“No one is truly honest. Even if we don't lie to others, we often lie to ourselves. And the word good means different things to different people.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“I feel special. Like maybe I deserve to be here.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“The important thing is I have a tomorrow. I know who I am. The rest will come”
― Megan Lally, That's Not My Name

“Memories, though, are a different matter. They’re filled with ghosts.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“Being humorless, she thought, was even worse than being dumb.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“We can do as we please, if we only learn not to care so much about what people think.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“I’ve failed so many times, not succeeding is now statistically impossible.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“ever notice how the children of rich people are never as smart as the parents? Never as ambitious, never as successful? You gotta have something to strive for in life.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“Kissing someone - someone you want to kiss, I mean - is like living inside the best song you ever heard. It's the same feeling.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

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

“I want you the way stars burn.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“the quickest way to make an attractive man ugly was to give him too much to drink.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“Surviving isn’t just not dying.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“The thing is…there’s something in his attitude that I envy. He doesn’t care. Not one shit is given if he’s welcomed here, let alone accepted or loved.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“What if I hadn’t tried to reach for more than this world was willing to offer me…?”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“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

“My first real smile in almost eight years. I can’t believe I finally got rid of that asshole.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. —SIGMUND FREUD”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“You know, one of the hardest things to admit is that we weren’t loved when we needed it most. It’s a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, “A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Sometimes it takes courage, you know, and a long time, to be honest.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Trust, once lost, is hard to recover.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“I suppose what scares me is giving in to the unknown.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient