Sarah

“The army men marched through my brain all day long. I didn't know who or what they were fighting but they were angry. They ransacked my thoughts, tossing them aside and breaking them in two. It was hard to explain the army men...”
― Heather Smith, Barry Squires, Full Tilt

“We tend to die, women who’ve been through the fire. Sometimes we choose obvious ways, suicide and overdoses; sometimes we’re more subtle, marrying someone who likes to use his fists, or we drink too much and keep getting behind the wheel until we run out of luck.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“I’m every girl who’s ever run from a man with a weapon, every girl who ever ran for her life across spaces where she was supposed to be safe. I crash into the next studio and I’m Julia running through her dorm, I’m Heather running down her high school halls, I’m Marilyn running through the Texas afternoon, I’m Dani running through a hospital, I’m Adrienne running through this camp, this camp where there will always be a girl running and screaming and screaming, and I’m Lynnette, running at last, and he can’t catch me, I’m as fast as all of us put together, I’m faster than Billy Walker, I’m faster than the Ghost, I’m faster than the entire Volker family, I’m the fastest girl in the world.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“Does it hurt?" I ask.

"Getting shot in the legs?" she asks. "What, because I'm paralyzed? You think it doesn't hurt? Here's an idea, Lynnette. Why don't you go get shot in something you don't use, like your head, and report back, okay?”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group