My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

by Stephen Graham Jones

history is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren’t there.”

you can't trust anyone not to be the killer.

“The reason rape-revenge isn’t a slasher is that the slasher and the final girl would have to be the same person,” she says, pushing off the front of Family Dollar with her butt. “Problem with that is that the final girl and the spirit of vengeance are forever locked in opposition, not the same jumpsuit. That’d—that’d be like Batman peeling his cowl off and being the Joker.

Slashers, in their own way, are as pure as final girls.

nobody ever makes it past twenty with the same hopes and dreams and certainties they once thought so dear and vital and true at seventeen.