Why I Love Horror Quotes

“No, give me that one brave flower out there that doesn’t even know how to bow its head, that doesn’t know what surrender is. Even if it doesn’t make it through the winter, it tried, didn’t it? To me, that’s what horror’s about: the trying, the fighting, the hope.”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“write it for the good moments—for the heart, for the hope, for the chance of winning, no matter how distant and unlikely, no matter the cost. But you can’t have those good moments without a long, torturous grind through the badness—doesn’t the good taste better after having had to suffer through the bad? Isn’t this why the salad precedes the meal? But I’d rather see a single small daisy out in a bleak, frozen landscape than a whole field of wildflowers thriving.”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“every time I stayed quiet when I wanted to speak up, because I was trying to be good and polite and not be deemed a bitch, horror gives me permission to scream.”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature