Ines

“Whether we like it or not, capitalism commodifies almost every aspect of our private lives, as sexual economics theory predicts. Personal relationships take time and energy that few of us have to spare as we scramble to make ends meet in the precarious gig economy. We are often exhausted and drained, unwilling to invest the emotional resources necessary to make loving relationships without compensation.”
― Kristen Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

“the impulse to wrap ourselves in our trauma because some protection’s better than none,”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake

“To put it in conclusion, sir, final girls are the vessel we keep all our hope in. Bad guys don't just die by themselves, I mean. Sometimes they need help in the form of a furie running at them, her mouth open in scream, her eyes white hot, her heart forever pure.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“You said this place was haunted,’ Shooting Glasses tells her.
‘By all the ghosts of who everybody used to want to be, before they died inside,’ Jade says.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw