Breana Bailey

“There’s something about the way he looks at me—I don’t trust him. Or maybe it’s the fact that he’s so damn big. And he has that frightening beard concealing half his face. It’s possible I’m being unfair to people with beards, but I always feel like they’re hiding something.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash

“It was agony, but I could survive it. Just as I’d weathered the pain of resetting my shoulder. The pain was temporary, necessary. A part of healing. Even as my world came down around me, I could appreciate that these awful feelings were proof that I was alive – that I had survived – just as my awareness of cold had returned as I escaped hypothermia. Numbness was the sign of losing the battle, and I never wanted to be numb again.”
― Sarah Goodwin, The Yacht

“Okay, the way I figure it, you’re just the subject of an experiment and the whole world you know is just an artificial construct populated by actors who play the roles of everybody in your life, and the weather is just special effects and the sky is painted blue and the landscape everywhere is just a set. Is that it?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Isn’t that what abusive, controlling men do to their wives—force them to give up their jobs so they don’t have their own source of income? Judging by the sad expression on her face, she clearly did not want to give up her job, but I’m sure Hank wouldn’t have wanted Polly’s coworkers to catch sight of the bruises he left on her.”
― Freida McFadden, The Crash