I Am Not Your Final Girl Quotes

“There is nothing else in this world like realizing you’re going to live and not being sure you can.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“She is so tired of waiting —aren’t you?—for the world to become good and tolerable and kind.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“I’d rather arm myself in blood than be a pretty statue to stare at.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“This time I will cut it out, excise that fragile and anemic part of me, let it ooze heavy as iron from me, smother it in dirt. I have not learned how to be obedient, only to hurt myself as much as you.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“If I could float up above my own tired bones, change my mother’s-hands into talons, rip out the root of this unrest, would I?”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“Her faced,
bathed in blood. Her smile,
crazed.
The sounds she makes
as she escapes.

There is nothing else in this world
like realizing
you're going to live
and not being sure
you can.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“I can’t exist in a way that comforts you.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“I have known monsters and I have known men.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“Hands can make cradles around bodies or throats.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“And so she thrashes, smashes her head against the tunnel walls like a dervish, a devil woman demented and godlike, with her too-many arms waving, a container for grief and this other thing she cannot name. A broken discontent, willing itself to life.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“but it will mean nothing to a man who says I like a girl with spirit when what he means is I like a girl that can break.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“She is so tired of waiting
—aren’t you?—
for the world to become good
and tolerable and kind.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“Laurie Halloween (1978) I ask you to tell me of a town where this hasn’t happened, where some brute dressed in black hasn’t donned a mask, shadowed a woman, called himself a monster to blot out his own mortality. Tell me why I should mythologize this. Let his shape grow larger than the women crouched with coat hangers, with makeshift daggers as sturdy as their hearts? Something can be vulnerable and powerful both at once, but you cannot understand this, and I have grown so weary trying to explain. You say you want to protect us, but the method, blunt pills forced to mouths, a technique for hysteria, is all wrong. It abrades. White fences are only made of wood, they splinter so easily.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“So maybe this is how the world ends: not with a bang or a whimper, but with revolution. The promise of something new.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“I have not learned how to be obedient, only to hurt myself as much as you.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“like Venus, she is perfect, she contains planets, universes of desire inside her body, yes she is callous, but I would not change her, not now,”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“Jesse The Neon Demon (2016) Naked she glitters, a body cut from marble, stony and white, a sun turned inside out and set to glowing, exploding. Her prettiness is a mantra she tells herself in the motel mirror, a crown of silver and wildflowers, she wears it as armor against his wolf smile. There’s a trap, an accusation there, a snare ready and taut for loose limbs.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

“Tired of hearing the same stories, over and over again, of women being harmed and treated like playthings by men with just enough power to take advantage.”
― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl