Do Not Disturb Quotes

“Maybe we used up all our happiness. Maybe everybody only gets so much.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“You don’t even realize you have everything until your whole life falls apart.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“But he seems nice. Harmless. Like he wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“I’m not dead. Did you think I was? That I’m some corpse my husband propped up in front of the second-floor window to frighten his guests? I’m not. I’m very much alive. And I’m afraid my husband is a murderer.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“I love mirrors,” Greta tells me. “Mirrors are the barrier between the conscious and unconscious mind. Everyone has an inner concept of themselves, but mirrors are reality. What you see right now—that is the truth that everyone else sees.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“when I was a kid, we used to have a real phone. A landline. And when you were mad at someone, you could slam it down. It’s just not the same with a cell phone.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Or more likely, Derek’s mother comes by for absolutely no reason at all except to count all the ways I’m an unsatisfactory wife. (To be fair, this time she would be absolutely right.)”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Bernie liked his corn dogs and curly fries. You did not have to be a psychic to know it would do him in.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“If you are going on a trip, it is important to pack socks.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“That is your choice. But even if you do not know your fortune, that does not keep it from coming true.” “If you know your fortune, are you able to stop it? Or do you just have to try to look surprised when it happens?”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Then I have to decide if I’ll forgive him. I probably will. It gets easier each time, and I have to admit, I don’t know what I would do without him.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“I hang up the phone and drop it down onto the center of the bed. Back when I was a kid, we used to have a real phone. A landline. And when you were mad at someone, you could slam it down. It’s just not the same with a cell phone.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“I flip around the “DO NOT DISTURB” sign on my door, then I close the door and lock it.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Mirrors are the barrier between the conscious and unconscious mind. Everyone has an inner concept of themselves, but mirrors are reality. What you see right now - that is the truth that everyone else sees.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“I hang up the phone and drop it onto the center of the bed. Back when I was a kid, we use to have a real phone. A landline. And when you were mad at someone,you could slam it down. It's just not the same with a cell phone.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“It’s the police.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“I stare at him. I have to get up and get to the restaurant. To my job that I love, that I dreamed of all my life. Except I just… don’t want to. The idea of getting out of bed, taking a shower, getting dressed… even running a comb through my hair is so exhausting. I can’t even contemplate it. “I’m not getting up,” I say.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“If you know your fortune, are you able to stop it? Or do you just have to try to look surprised when it happens?”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“And my husband is still lying dead on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Well, long story short, I hate my sister. Surprise, surprise.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Yes, it’s true. I’ve been sleeping with my sister’s husband for the last six months.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“He looks down at the woman, out cold on the floor. “Little did I know, my wife is a ninja.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“And, of course, after one of our huge fights, Derek would always fall over himself to apologize. There would be flowers, expensive jewelry, maybe a dinner out at a nice restaurant. He would be nice for weeks until I forgot the fight and remembered the man I had fallen in love with. So I stayed. When I was younger, before I met Derek, I would hear stories about women stuck in abusive relationships. I never understood why any of them stayed. I thought they were foolish or weak. It never made sense to me until it became my life.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Oh. He knows about the old lady. Damn.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“isn’t”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“It’s not like I did this with any kind of well-thought-out plan. I didn’t wake up this morning and say to myself, Hey, I’m going to kill my husband today! If I had done something like that, I would have filled up my gas tank beforehand, for starters.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“love mirrors,” Greta tells me. “Mirrors are the barrier between the conscious and unconscious mind. Everyone has an inner concept of themselves, but mirrors are reality. What you see right now—that is the truth that everyone else sees.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“right”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Because a couple of years ago, a woman was murdered in there.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb

“Nick always leaves 201 empty.”
― Freida McFadden, Do Not Disturb