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 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 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 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

“Man, there’s nothing like good home-baked cookies.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“When she complained I wasn’t hugging her tightly enough, we came up with a ten-point scale to determine how tight of a hug we needed given how shitty we were feeling at that exact moment. I know—we’re so cute, you want to vomit.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“amorous”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“preemptively.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“In any case, I’ve got to keep a close eye on Whitney.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“I scratch my forearm. Toward the end of the day, I started to feel itchy again, the same way I was at Becky and Malcolm’s place.”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“her?”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“You’re fired”
― Freida McFadden, The Tenant

“Except… Why does this voice in the back of my head keep telling me to get rid of her right now”
― 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