The Tenant Quotes

“Is it such an awful thing to want retribution against people who have wronged you?”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“So you see, when I stabbed Krista that night, I wasn’t saving Blake’s life. I was saving my own. I bet you five bucks Krista never saw that coming.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“They say you’re supposed to dress for the job you want.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I imagine what would happen if I went downstairs to the kitchen and boiled some water, then brought it up here and threw it in his face. That would change his life forever. The burns he would sustain would be permanent—his face would be scarred for the rest of his life. He might lose his vision. He’d never cheat on me again, that’s for sure.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I have been unemployed for sixty-two days. Not that I’m counting.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I do love him. So much. But I don’t trust him.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I bet you five bucks Krista never saw that coming.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“Anyway, it’s all on my credit card, and that bill isn’t coming for two more weeks. That’s a problem for Future Blake.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“If she had sex with a guy, she’d probably have to devour him after the mating ritual was over.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“Why did he have to be a cheating bastard like all the others?”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I didn’t notice this when the stain was dry, but now that it’s on the paper towel, it’s clear that I got the color wrong. The stain is not brown. It’s dark red. It’s got to be wine. It’s the right color. Well, not exactly—it doesn’t have that purplish hue that I sometimes associate with wine. But it’s got to be. What else could it be? What other dark red liquid could have stained my floor boards? Okay, there is one other thing it could be. Yes, it is the exact color of blood. It much more closely resembles blood than wine. And it has a strange metallic smell. But it can’t be that. Because why would there be a bloodstain all over my floor?”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“A fire-breathing dragon?”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“sounding better and better”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I end up renting a Corolla.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“exasperated.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“Because the teenage girl in that photo is not the woman who has been living in our guest bedroom”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I said, excuse me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“tirade?”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“My boss’s secretary”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“if you have done something to Whitney”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“Krista emerges from the kitchen carrying a plate of the snickerdoodles. She carries them to the sofa”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“He’s going to kill you,” the older woman blurts out. “Blake is going to kill you”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I’m”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“He’s got that familiar air of being both exhausted and wired.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“Single upstairs bedroom available immediately in Upper West Side brownstone on a quiet tree-lined street. Bedroom is fully furnished and has two large windows and lots of closet space. Large shared kitchen, dining area, and living room. Subway adjacent. No pets, no parking provided.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I love you too,” I say back. I do love him. So much. But I don’t trust him.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I paid a waitress to alert his girlfriend that he’d been at the same place only a few days early with another girl, acting hot and heavy. She did it while Blake was in the bathroom, and the look on the girlfriend’s face was exactly what I’d been hoping for.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“The microwave dings. Whitney pulls out the Styrofoam container, which has a burger and fries inside. A reheated cheeseburger and fries don’t seem very appealing, but Whitney doesn’t seem to mind.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“assaulted by the floral perfume that Becky always wears too much of. I don’t know how Krista can stand it. It’s all I can do not to breathe through my mouth whenever I’m near her.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“She was one of those girls who were always surrounded by friends, but you could tell none of them were true friends. And if anyone did anything she didn’t like, she made it her business to wreck their lives.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant