Ashley

“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“Do I dare?”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“But you also remember the first time you saw your final girl in her true light, and how your vision tunneled down, your mind pulsing her, her, her.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“Old slashers may not die, but they can, if they’re careful, if they’re conscientious, stop killing.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher