Ice Picks Quotes

“She hit the floor on her back, blood bubbling from amidst broken teeth. Her eyes stared up at the ceiling. Sam screamed.”
― Shannon Giglio, Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza

“She had awoken one night to see a dark figure standing over her bed. She’d thought it was her dad, at first, until he’d slammed the knife into her belly.”
― Shannon Giglio, Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza

“The males are enormous, and once gestation is complete they rip through your flesh and consume you, still alive and screaming, somehow extending your life through unknowable, damnable chemical processes before fully dislodging and escaping the ruined housing of your body. They circle us -- men, boys, and five other women -- in waters teeming with tiny female elver, waiting for the time their brethren no longer require our bodies as incubators.”
― Shannon Giglio, Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza

“They live the rest of their tortured days suspended in custom-made harnesses, limbless, resembling slowly-leaking eggs dangling from macramé plant hangers.”
― Shannon Giglio, Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza

“They strap you to a table, force your mouth open, insert Jennings gags and ratchet them wide as possible. Pliers remove teeth. Surgical scissors are inserted down your throat to server vocal cords. All without anesthesia.”
― Shannon Giglio, Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza

“dream holiday.’ I says, ‘like Christmas?’ He says ‘that’s European for vay-cay-shun’ so I’s like, ‘oh, well, what kinda vay-cay-shun?’ Wit no crinkles in’is face he like, ‘a spa!’ N’I’m like, ‘a spa? Serious? I’m parta th’male species!’ Well, now, th’stranger don’t bat no eyes’t me,”
― Shannon Giglio, Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza

“If she doesn’t grow up to become a lawyer, she’ll have to settle for serial killer.”
― Shannon Giglio, Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza

“You make an excellent point,” Shark says. “But on the other hand, I’m a heartless sociopath, and, well, I want to make you cry.”
― Shannon Giglio, Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza

“Mitch was deflated. His empty skin floated and bobbed in the watery slush. Blood seeped out of his empty eye sockets.”
― Shannon Giglio, Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza

“The bathtub is on fire. Flames sit atop bloody water, licking upwards and scorching the ceiling. The fire keeps burning, regardless of cause or fuel. A large silver knife, stolen from her mother’s kitchen, sits on the floor beside the tub. Blood coats the blade and handle, pooling on the tile and running into the grout. The last she remembers, she had been slitting her wrists. She was tired of the dreams of fire and blood. Tired of feeling like she didn’t belong. She’d run the water and sat in the tub. She’d drawn the blade across her skin, feeling the odd invasive pain as it cut. She’d welcomed it.”
― Shannon Giglio, Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza