“This is all you really need, isn’t it? Just one good friend. Somebody you can be stupid with. Somebody who’ll peel you up off the ground, prop you against the wall.”
―
Stephen Graham Jones,
The Only Good Indians
“Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“We’re from where we’re from,” she says back. “Scars are part of the deal, aren’t they?” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because it's never over, it's always just beginning again.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“The land claims what you leave behind.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“My heart is a chainsaw, yes, but you’re the one who starts it.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“If you’re not a beautiful monster, then you’re a villager,” ― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels
“Some girls just don't know how to die.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it to or not. The heart keeps beating. Perhaps because it knows more than you do--knows that, past this experience, a whole new life will open up, and whatever infirmities persist, they can be dealt with one by one.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Ones That Got Away
“For them, ten years ago, that's another lifetime.For you, it's yesterday.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“It's soft at the end. Not just the pain, but the world.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“These are the kind of wrong thoughts people have who are spending too much time alone. They start unpacking vast cosmic bullshit from gum wrappers, and then they chew it up, blow a bubble, ride that bubble up into some even stupider place.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“Can’t I just like horror because it’s great? Does there have to be some big explanation?” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“It’s almost October though, and horror is my religion. Can I not celebrate orthodoxly and honor my church’s holy days?” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior
“When the whole world hurts, you bite it. Don't you?” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“Sometimes they need help in the form of a furie running at them, her mouth open in a scream, her eyes white hot, her heart forever pure.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, Zombie Bake-Off
“Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“We’re from where we’re from,” she says back. “Scars are part of the deal, aren’t they?” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because it's never over, it's always just beginning again.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“The land claims what you leave behind.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“My heart is a chainsaw, yes, but you’re the one who starts it.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“If you’re not a beautiful monster, then you’re a villager,” ― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels
“Some girls just don't know how to die.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it to or not. The heart keeps beating. Perhaps because it knows more than you do--knows that, past this experience, a whole new life will open up, and whatever infirmities persist, they can be dealt with one by one.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Ones That Got Away
“For them, ten years ago, that's another lifetime.For you, it's yesterday.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“It's soft at the end. Not just the pain, but the world.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“These are the kind of wrong thoughts people have who are spending too much time alone. They start unpacking vast cosmic bullshit from gum wrappers, and then they chew it up, blow a bubble, ride that bubble up into some even stupider place.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“Can’t I just like horror because it’s great? Does there have to be some big explanation?” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“It’s almost October though, and horror is my religion. Can I not celebrate orthodoxly and honor my church’s holy days?” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior
“When the whole world hurts, you bite it. Don't you?” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
“Sometimes they need help in the form of a furie running at them, her mouth open in a scream, her eyes white hot, her heart forever pure.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway.” ― Stephen Graham Jones, Zombie Bake-Off
