Uncanny Valley Girls Quotes

“I asked my mother what she prayed for. It wasn't an end to her pain, as I or the countless well-wishers had assumed. She wished for just one thing, day after day, night after night: That her daughter wasn't afraid when she died.”
― Zefyr Lisowski, Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love

“In The Ring, when the girl climbs up the well, her bones cracking out of place, bending behind herself, this is supposed to be a sign she's to be feared and pitied and isn't even human.
When I discovered, suddenly as a child, that I could do the same thing, oh, it felt like freedom.”
― Zefyr Lisowski, Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love

“If you care enough about a person, after all, you can ignore almost any belief they hold. If you're devoted enough, a friend and a lover are nearly the same thing.”
― Zefyr Lisowski, Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love