Final Girls Quotes

“That’s not your choice. It’s already been decided for you. You can’t change what’s happened. The only thing you can control is how you deal with it.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“I'm a fucking final girl”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“You can’t change what’s happened. The only thing you can control is how you deal with it.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Because here’s the thing about details—they can also be a distraction. Add too many and it obscures the brutal truth about a situation. They become the gaudy necklace that hides the tracheotomy scar.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“There's something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“There’s such a thing as too much sweetness, Quincy, he told me. All the best bakers know this. There needs to be a counterpoint. Something dark. Or bitter. Or sour. Unsweetened chocolate. Cardamom and cinnamon. Lemon and lime. They cut through all the sugar, taming it just enough so that when you do taste the sweetness, you appreciate it all the more.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Baking is a science, as rigorous as chemistry or physics. There are rules that must be followed. Too much of one thing and not enough of another can lead to ruin. I find comfort in this. Outside, the world is an unruly place where men prowl with sharpened knives. In baking, there is only order.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“There’s safety in numbers, yes, but also uncertainty.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“I make no attempts to disguise my scars. I just pretend they don’t exist.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Final Girl is film-geek speak for the last woman standing at the end of a horror movie.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“I’m the moth that got careless with the flame. Now I’m engulfed.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“I'm a blogger?" It comes out sounding like a question. Like I have no clue what I am.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“I was friendly but friendless. Approachable yet purposefully aloof. I saw no point in getting too close with anyone.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Then it hits me. Hard. I'm like a nail struck by a hammer - brittle, quivering, sinking deeper into something from which there is no escape.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“SURVIVOR ... It's both a declaration and dare. Go on, it says. Just try to fuck with me.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“There needs to be a counterpoint. Something dark. Or bitter. Or sour. Unsweetened chocolate. Cardamom and cinnamon. Lemon and lime. They cut through all the sugar, taming it just enough so that when you do taste the sweetness, you appreciate it all the more.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Murder is a stranger beast than suicide, although the end result of both is the same. Even the words themselves differ. “Suicide” hisses like a snake—a sickness of the mind and soul. “Murder,” though, makes me think of sludge, dark and thick and filled with pain.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“We’re so radiant we’ve become invisible.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Dissociative amnesia” is the official diagnosis. More commonly known as repressed memory syndrome. Basically, what I witnessed was too horrific for my fragile mind to hold on to. So I mentally cut it out. A self-performed lobotomy.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“I’m mad at everything and nothing. I’m mad at life.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“There’s no such a thing as too much sweetness, Quincy”, he told me. “All the best bakers know this. There needs to be a counterpoint. Something dark. Or bitter. Or sour. Unsweetened chocolate. Cardamom and cinnamon. Lemon and lime. They cut through all the sugar, taming it just enough so that when you do taste the sweetness, you appreciate it all the more.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Because here’s the thing about details—they can also be a distraction. Add too many and it obscures the brutal truth about a situation.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Instead of friends, I have acquaintances.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“I want Sam to witness firsthand the formula behind baking and to experience its safety; I want her to see how it’s helped me become more than just a girl screaming through the woods away from Pine Cottage.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“was friendly but friendless. Approachable yet purposefully aloof. I saw no point in getting too close with anyone.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“A spoonful of sugar, Quinn, he’d say. The song doesn’t lie.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Because I was tired of strangers vaguely recognizing it when I was introduced to them. Because I hated the way their features froze, if only for a second, when their memories clicked. Because it made me sick knowing my name and His will forever be associated. Coop ultimately talked me out of it. He said I should hold on to my name as a stubborn point of pride. Changing it wouldn’t separate the name Quincy Carpenter from the horrors of Pine Cottage. Keeping it could, if I moved on and made something of myself.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“This time a faint cold spot blunts the heat of her gaze. Curiosity, left unarticulated.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“SURVIVOR...It was a part of her now. As permanent as her scars.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Near the end, I began to think I had survived Pine Cottage only because my father had somehow made a pact with God, exchanging his life for mine.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls