Kill Beth Quotes

“One by one, I push open the stall doors. Each time, my heartbeat spikes, expecting to see some ghoulish figure standing on the toilet ready to jump out at me. Perhaps the vagrant, holding his folding knife above his head, prepared to strike. Every stall is empty, and yet when I’ve finished my search it still does nothing to allay my irrational fear. I head over to the sink to splash some cold water on my face when I finally see something that nearly makes my heart stop.”
― Jon Cohn, Kill Beth

“Tomorrow morning is my scheduled appointment with Dr. Jules, but I don’t know if I can make it that long. She says to only call her number in an emergency.
I think this counts.
Her phone rings once, twice. Even the tone reverberates in my ear, buzzing the word Beeeeeeth. Beeeeeeeth. Beeeeeeeth.”
― Jon Cohn, Kill Beth

“My body shivers as I rise to my feet. Blood covers half my body, sticky, wet, and freezing cold. Sitting on the couch, framed against the window sits a man, merely a silhouette save for his white eyes and gleaming teeth behind a wicked grin.”
― Jon Cohn, Kill Beth

“Beth. Her name is Beth, a voice keeps poking into my brain like a needle being shoved through my eardrum. The harder I try to focus on counting stairs, the more it drones into me.
Beth, Beth, Beth, Beth.”
― Jon Cohn, Kill Beth

“Perhaps it's best if I don’t move. Don’t get up. He doesn’t know I’m awake. Time crawls by, I don’t even think I’ve blinked once since seeing the silhouette. All I can do is stare at the figure, stone-still on the other side of the window.”
― Jon Cohn, Kill Beth

“While I don’t have any physical scars to show it, I understand what it’s like to live every day with regret over something that felt so small in the moment. At least with grand risks we know the potential consequences and have a modicum of understanding that we only have ourselves to blame. But it’s the regret and rage over the small moments that really haunt us, because they feel so avoidable in hindsight.”
― Jon Cohn, Kill Beth

“Even though we hadn’t stayed in touch for nearly two decades, it was as if Nate had climbed into my head and my heart and typed out two acts of pure catharsis, if that was something I was even capable of experiencing anymore. But the one thing I did know, without a doubt, was that I could do this project. I could bury myself in the script and feel proud of the work I’d done bringing it to the stage.”
― Jon Cohn, Kill Beth