The Housemaid Is Watching Quotes

“By the end of this night, if I have not stabbed Suzette with one of these forks, it will only be because I’m not sure which one to use to do it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“The third in a series usually isn’t that great, so it’s not his fault.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“Being ordinary has always been an impossible dream for me, so I’m happy to have achieved it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“My mom is a really good mom. She’s, like, the kind of mom where if you forgot you were supposed to bring in a tray of Rice Krispies squares for school tomorrow and it’s already almost bedtime, she will go out and get the Rice Krispies and marshmallows, and she’ll make it for you and make sure they’re packed and ready for school the next day.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“Everything is going to be okay,” I tell them. But even as the words leave my mouth, I know that they are not true. And that things are about to get much worse.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“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

“You are my wife. The mother of my children. I love you so much.” “Okay…” “Also,” he adds, “I know better than to double-cross you. I would like to keep breathing.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“I mean, I don’t think I’m a psychopath, but I didn’t go to prison for picking daisies.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“that a person can do bad things and still be a good person. As long as they were doing the bad thing for the right reason.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“we can barely even afford this house,”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“We can’t afford a cleaning woman! I can do it myself.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“Ramirez returns a smile that is an endearing combination of excited and nervous. “Believe it or not, Cecelia set me up with her mother. This is only our second date, but we’ve been talking a lot on the phone, and… I know it’s early, but I like that woman a lot. She’s really something.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“The second he says her name, I know exactly who this girl is:”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“It is true. If you read too many books, your eyeballs will fall out.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“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

“one thing I know about Enzo Accardi is that he is a good guy. I don’t think he would kill anyone. But if he did, it would be for a damn good reason.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“How do you know?” “Because,” my daughter says”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“Cecelia!” Enzo cries. The second he says her name”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“I do not like enclosed spaces like this. I had a bad experience that I’m not sure I’ll ever entirely get over.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“One of the things I’ve learned since I started working in the hospital is that a large number of elderly people who live alone probably should not be living alone.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“He looks up at me”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“By the end of this night”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“It was lying empty for a while because”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“a massage is never just a massage.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“pros and cons of washing off the blood versus getting the hell out of here right now. If I wash my hands, I will waste precious seconds in which I could be caught. If I leave immediately, I’ll be walking out the”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“Maybe I can brush my teeth with my finger tonight.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“snatch”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“I can’t shake the feeling that I don’t trust this woman who Suzette sent to work for us.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“Women who are in terrible situations and have no way out. I became the way out for some of those women.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“I wasn’t imagining that scraping sound haunting me during the night. That was real. That was coming from my own home.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching