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

“The crowd I do run with are… well. We’re the ones with black hearts and red hands. Masks and machetes.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

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

“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