Nina

“I initially wanted to hire a maid in hopes that she would become my replacement—that if Andrew fell in love with another woman, he would finally let me go. But that’s not why I hired Millie. That’s not why I gave her a copy of the key to the room. And that’s not why I left a bottle of pepper spray in the blue bucket in the closet. I hired her to kill him. She just doesn’t know it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“Years later, if I could say anything to her, I’d say, “For fuck’s sake, stop making us look bad.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“All I want to do is break her. Shatter her into pieces. And then arrange those pieces to fit against my own. I don’t care if they don’t fit—I’ll fucking make them.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Then again, plenty of men are idiots.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid