The Invited Quotes

“What people don’t understand, they destroy.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“Fear does that to a person: shrinks them down, makes them small and weak.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“It's not the gun you should be scared of—it's the crazy man with the gun”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“Shape your reality. Make it true because you say it is.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“What people don’t understand, they destroy”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“Sometimes they return to exact revenge.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“That was the cruelest part about history, whether your own or a stranger’s from a hundred years ago—there wasn’t a damn thing you could do to change it.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“Her father’s death had been a wake-up call—a warning that she, too, would die one day, perhaps sooner than expected, perhaps without warning, and it was entirely possible that she wasn’t living the life she’d been meant to live.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“Everyone’s looking for something, she thought. Ghosts. Scientific explanations of the world around us. A new and different life somewhere else.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“I come to school and pretend that I’m not one of them. That I’m this alien, from way off in some other galaxy. I’ve just been sent here to observe.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“He nodded. This he understood. The need to learn whatever you could about the things you didn’t know, to fill in the gaps, to be constantly supplying your brain with new information and facts.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“Hattie had learned, over the years, to put her own fears in a box at the back of her mind, to stand tall and brave, to be resilient to whatever enemy presented itself.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“I don’t have a point. I’m just curious. It’s an area I don’t know much about.” He nodded. This he understood. The need to learn whatever you could about the things you didn’t know, to fill in the gaps, to be constantly supplying your brain with new information and facts.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“He’d brought his 35 mm camera, the one he used to take photos on his birding trips, and was snapping pictures of it all.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“A spirit may come to pass along a message you may not wish to hear or even to warn you of something.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“Nate seemed to live in a world where unpredictable things didn’t happen.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

“Dicky looked at her. “Tell me, Helen, have you experienced anything like this?” She squirmed, looked at Riley, who gave her a little nod. “Well,” Helen began, “I do find myself waking up at the same time in the night. Three thirty-three.” She didn’t tell them she woke up and saw ghosts. Though she was sure this was exactly the sort of crowd that would be eager to hear such a thing, she wasn’t willing to trust this detail to a group of strangers. The old woman beside her nodded. “It’s the spirits waking you. That’s a powerful number. The number three is the number of communication. Of psychic ability. It’s the number of mediums.” She looked at Helen, gauging her response. “What happens when you wake up, dear? Do you see any visions? Have any particular feelings?” “No,” Helen lied. “I just go back to sleep.” The woman nodded. “Stay up next time. Stay up, keep your eyes open, and listen. If they’re waking you up again and again, there’s a reason.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Invited