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“Carrie did it. Carrie did it.” Pg. 241

“Who? How do you know?” -Sheriff Doyle
“I dunno. It just sort of… came to me.” -Tom Quillan pg. 246

“Her mind was filled with the huge knowledge of POWERS, and of an ABYSS.” PG. 249

“What happens if there are others like her? What happens to the world?” -Mrs. Cora Simard pg. 257

“(dead are they all dead Carrie why think Carrie) pg. 219

“What happened next?”
“Next? Why, next thing, the Devil came to Chamberlain…” -Thomas pg. 225

“ They are laughing and ready to throw things to point and scream with laughter I can't see them I can't see them it's all too bright.” pg. 228

“She was forgetting (!! THE POWER !!) It was time to teach them a lesson.” Pg. 231

“I told the truth— as much of it as I knew. But I am sorry for Carrie.” -Sue from My Name Is Susan Snell pg. 165

“The White Commission’s stand on the trigger of the whole affair— two buckets of pig blood on a beam over the stage—“ pg. 168-9

“Had not God Himself commanded Abraham to take his son Isaac up upon the mountain?” Pg. 184

“As Jezebel fell from the tower, let it be with you. And the dogs came and licked it up. It’s in the Bible! It’s—“ -Meredith pg. 149-50

“(then I’ll wreck the house) the thought came to her naturally and cleanly.” -Carrie thought Pg. 156

“…she could feel a large excitement blooming, like a rapacious and night-flowering vine, in her belly.” Pg. 164

“I’ve got that kind of feeling. A hunch. Someone’s going to come with rotten apples or something.” -Grayle pg. 126

“With the TK phenomenon, the male appears to be the carrier; the TK gene may be recessive in the female, but dominates only in the female.” From The Shadow Exploded Pg. 127

“But what can you say for Chris Hargensen herself?” -Sue from My Name Is Sue Snell Pg. 133

“Pig blood for pig.” Pg. 143

“You must be crazy.” -Tommy to Sue pg. 100

“They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from its fellow.” -Sue from My Name Is… pg. 104

“The ability, almost lost two weeks ago, was in full flower. It had progressed at a speed that was— Well, almost terrifying. And now, seemingly unbidden— like the knowledge of menstruation—.” Pg. 114

"I don't know exactly what I'm going to do yet, but I guarantee you everyone is going to get a big fucking surprise..." -Chris letter to Donna Kellogg pg. 96

"In the wake of two hundred deaths and the destruction of an entire town, it is so easy to forget one thing: We were kids. We were kids. We were kids trying to do our best..." -Sue from My Name Is Sue Snell pg. 100

"He said that it made no difference, but she thought that it did. It had begun to seem that it meant all the difference." Pg. 61

"And Eve was weak and loosed the raven on the world, and the raven was called Sin, and the first Sin was Intercourse. And the Lord visited Eve with a Curse, and the Curse was the Curse of Blood." -Margaret pg. 66

“The red-plaque circle was like blood itself— you could scrub and scrub and scrub and still it would be there, not erased, not clean.” Pg. 28

“That’s something else— she never hung any undies on the back line. Not even Carrie’s, and she was only three back then. Always in the house.” Pg. 36

“Neither shall the rock hide him ON THAT DAY!” -title blared pg. 48

"What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic." Pg. 4

"A tampon suddenly struck her in the chest and fell with a plop at her feet. A red flower stained the absorbent cotton and spread." Pg. 9

"They laughed at me. Threw things. They've always laughed." -Carrie pg. 21