Sadie Hartmann > Quotes

“I love a good story about everyone dying.”
― Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

“The moms at the tables all clasp their hands together proudly and grin, lobotomized and unvaccinated.”
― Sadie Hartmann, Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology

“I shall come into your house with burnt offerings.”
― Sadie Hartmann, Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology

“What scares us is as unique to ourselves as our fingerprints.”
― Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

“Humans in large quantities are awful. I avoid crowds at all costs. Disneyland might be the happiest place on Earth, but it’s the last place I want to be in a crisis. If the zombie apocalypse begins, where do you want to be? Disneyland? Certainly not. And think of the germs present”
― Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

“Damn those old grandmas and their healthy bladders.”
― Sadie Hartmann, Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology

“Tune in to any recent episode of any true-crime podcast or TV show, and listen to the 101 ways women are victimized every single day. Or listen to a woman tell their birthing story.”
― Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

“Horror is cathartic and healing in ways that other genres can’t even come close to being.”
― Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

“It sounded almost like a man jamming his hand into a Ziploc full of Vaseline.”
― Sadie Hartmann, Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology

“Normal is not a default. It is a configuration, one slim layer pretending it’s the absolute when there’s an ocean of experience to explore.”
― Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

“Men were so naive, you had to pity them.”
― Sadie Hartmann, Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology

“NORTH AMERICAN LAKE MONSTERS BY NATHAN BALLINGRUD (2013) She’s like a thousand different people right now, all waiting to be, and every time she makes a choice, one of those people goes away forever. Until finally you run out of choices and you are whoever you are.”
― Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

“Friday is tater tots day at school.”
― Sadie Hartmann, Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology

“Horror often asks us to quit being the critic. Lay aside that skepticism. Buy into this new reality and completely let go of all of your expectations for how the world should work so that you can enjoy the journey the author has planned for you.”
― Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered