Heads Will Roll Quotes

“He heard a whispering voice as footsteps beat the dirt. “Got to make them pay. Got to make them all pay.” He heard something heavy being dragged over the dirt. He heard his own throat give a final whine as air left it. Then he heard nothing.”
― Josh Winning, Heads Will Roll

“My fingers bleed, are sliced to shreds, but finally I’m done. For the first time since high school, I have bangs. They’re spiky and uneven, make me think about memes celebrating that weird moment in the early noughties when everybody in Hollywood got the “Scream 3 Courteney Cut.”
― Josh Winning, Heads Will Roll

“As I read the messages, I stop breathing. I feel the trees crowding in through the windows. They whisper and press against my face, pushing branches into my mouth, and it’s suddenly too quiet in here. Too unbearably quiet, aside from the thud of blood in my temples.”
― Josh Winning, Heads Will Roll

“I’m pretty sure a sound woke me up. I hold my breath, listening. The vein in my temple throbs against my skull. Silence hisses in my ears. Then— Knock. Knock. Knock.”
― Josh Winning, Heads Will Roll

“The gloom is comforting, though. It feels womblike. Protective. Nothing can reach me here. Nobody can take my picture or yell at me in the street or slide into my DMs to tell me real quick just how they're going to take me apart, piece by dripping piece.”
― Josh Winning

“Horror never lied. It never assured you it would all work out. It never shied away from reality. Horror was different. Horror was honest. Horror hurt in the best way possible.”
― Josh Winning, Heads Will Roll