The Crash Quotes

“It’s possible I’m being unfair to people with beards, but I always feel like they’re hiding something.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“We have an expensive hospital bed paid for by insurance in the basement, and that’s where you want to spend the night. Trust me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“How do you know what’s right or wrong without your mother telling you so?”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“We are all at the mercy of that terrible man.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“The next thing I find in her purse is her cell phone. I swipe at the screen, but it’s locked. I start to drop the phone back in her bag, but at the last second, for reasons I don’t quite understand, I power it down and slip it into my own pocket.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“Well, I finally got his attention. “You heard me. And if you don’t give me a fork, I’ll find something else to do it with. Maybe my fingernails.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“Dear Tegan, I wish you and your daughter all the happiness in the world. Love, Polly.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“Polly, she stabbed you with a fork today. She’s not giving you her baby.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“There’s nothing functionally wrong with the zipper”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“Someday”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“Six or seven?”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“I thought my life was about as bad as it could get, and then I went and irritated a nerve in my spine on top of everything else.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“I don't know who Polly is,” I finally say. “I never heard the name before in my life.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“That’s why your brother suggested driving out to see him.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“There’s a man standing at her bedside. It takes me a second to recognize him as the man who was at my house looking for Tegan. The man who said he was her brother. Except he’s not just visiting with Tegan. Something else is going on in this room. The man has a syringe in his hand.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“He wanted me to stay home. He prefers it that way.” An alarm bell is sounding off in my head. Isn’t that what abusive, controlling men do to their wives—force them to give up their jobs so they don’t have their own source of income? Judging by the sad expression on her face, she clearly did not want to give up her job, but I’m sure Hank wouldn’t have wanted Polly’s coworkers to catch sight of the bruises he left on her.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“And now it all makes a sudden horrible kind of sense. I knew I didn’t have that much to drink that night. I have never been blackout drunk in my entire life, and certainly not after a couple of beers. Simon slipped something into my drink. And then when we got back to my hotel room, he… Oh God.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“hardly went out and focused most of my energy on saving money for my dream of going to nursing school—yet I had become a cliché. I got pregnant while drinking, and I didn’t even know who the father of my child was.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“know my eight-month-old fetus is not capable of speech. But sometimes her sweet little voice talks to me, clear as day. Even though I haven’t seen her face yet, I already love her. I want her to have a better life than I’ve had and all the advantages I never got to have. And I’ll do whatever I have to do to get it for her. That’s why I don’t even feel one scrap of guilt about the payday coming my way.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“But the fact is I did get pregnant at age twenty-two. It was a one-night stand. And up until recently, I didn’t know who the father was. So really, there’s not much I can say to her that wouldn’t be a lie.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“A flash of guilt passes over his thin face, but I don’t know why. It’s not Jackson’s responsibility to babysit me during this pregnancy. It’s nice of him to carry my groceries, but my baby and I are not his problem. And very soon—after the papers are signed—I’ll likely never see him again.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“No, the reason my coat doesn’t close anymore is that it no longer fits over my distended belly. I am nearly eight months pregnant.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“And I am so happy that he kept me from making that terrible mistake one year ago. You know you’re with someone really special when they are able to save you from ruining your own life.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“And I am so happy that he kept me from making that terrible mistake one year ago. You know you’re got someone really special when they are able to save you from ruining your own life.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“about”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“You got born. That’s going to be the hardest thing you’ll ever have to do. It’s all easy from here.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“I’m chopping onions,” I explain. “If you light a candle before you chop onions, it burns off the toxins so your eyes don’t water.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“Show me a man who doesn’t like fried steak,”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“cum”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“onions,”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash