Lindsay

“He had taken her to a cave behind a waterfall, where he had kept all of the stones she had tried and failed to cut. There were the marks of her failure: slashes in the rocks where her madra had cut. The scars started faint, but they got wider and deeper. And the stones got bigger. “This is what you did yesterday,” he’d said, pointing to the largest rock, the one with the deepest cut. “I can’t wait to see what you do tomorrow.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“I know you are not an unintelligent man, so I will assume you are being facetious rather than dense.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Agents of the Crown - The Complete Series #1-5

“I’ve always wondered how religions get started, but now I have a better handle on it, I think. Take some subjugated group of people and give them something to hook their hope claws into. Something that can, in the retelling, just get better and better. Then by the time it’s climbed high enough, you can’t let go anymore, because the fall’s too scary, so you go all in on that it really happened this way, and only this way.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake

“I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of the slasher-proof shelter open, so everybody can duck in, ride this out.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake