Sawkill Girls Quotes

“Girls hunger. And we’re taught, from the moment our brains can take it, that there isn’t enough food for us all.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“Screw that book,” said Val. “It was written by men.” She held out her free hand to Marion. “We’re rewriting it.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“Hope, she thought, breathing with the tide, was a choice that only those with resolute hearts dared to make.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“to all the girls who have my back-
the queens and the witches
the poets and the mothers-
to the girls who raise their voices
and
to the girls who light the way”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“This is the way it is done. This is the way our fathers taught us." [Briggs]

"Your fathers," Val replied, "were full of shit.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“It was stuck in a state of collapse, this pit - a tiny, organ-shaped singularity, sucking down the bleeding ravaged bits of who she used to be.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“Or maybe, Zoey thought darkly, legends about monsters weren’t so funny when girls were actually dying.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“Hope was a choice that only the resolute of heart chose to make.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“There was a magnetism to the Mortimer women, and they knew it, and they used it. It was their right, this witchery; they’d given up their souls for it.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“Zoey aimed for wry nonchalance, to cover up how obviously chalant she was. Was that a thing?”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“She was so sick of all the Latin. The Latin was creepy. It was a language of the dead.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“Imagine, if you will, a sponge—” “Animal, cleaning, or Bob?” Zoey interrupted. Her father gave her a Look. Marion exhaled a soft laugh.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep.
He'll follow you home and won't let you sleep”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“A bramble took root in Val’s stubborn feet. Maybe if she stood there long enough, briar tangles would wrap her up within an enchanted wall, and the wall would stand guard around the sleeping girl until the prince came and burned everything down.

That’s how the story went, right?”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“Hope [...] was a choice that only those with resolute hearts dared to make”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“And Marion looked up at Val, to show her unequivocally that this was no joke, no dream, that she had come home, and replied, "I’m not going anywhere.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival

“Don't worry, Grayson... I'll forget about Thora, and all the other girls, too. Just like everyone else on this shithole rock”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls: A Bram Stoker Nominee―A Dark YA Horror Story of Queer Love and Female Survival