The Girl in Red Quotes

“One thing Red had learned from years of reading and movie watching was that people were far scarier than any disease or zombie or alien or face-eating monster.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“...it was never the Event - illness, asteroid, nuclear war, whatever - that was the problem. It was what people did after. And people always reduced to their least human denominators when things went bad.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn’t look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“Grandmas didn't die from stuff like that. Grandmas went on and on, enduring year after year, shriveled and worn but somehow ageless.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“Why is it that assholes just go on and on, even when the world would be a better place if they just dropped dead?"
"Because their assholery protects them. They're so full of bile that the virus can't get a toehold," Adam said.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“And what will you do if you get caught by them? I don’t think they are the type that will be kind to a woman alone.”
“Do you think I don’t know what kind of men this world has wrought?” Red said. “Every woman knows. And those men existed before everything fell apart.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“We all die in the end," Mama said. "What we do before the end is what counts".”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“She was not following his script, and he didn’t know how to improvise.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“People ought to help each other, especially when the world was ending.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“Red didn’t like to think of herself as a killer, but she wasn’t about to let herself get eaten up just because she was a woman alone in the woods.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“She wasn’t under any obligation to be polite to someone who thought she was his next victim.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." - Red”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“You can't write this like a story Red. This is life, and it doesn't follow your rules”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“It didn’t escape Red’s notice that underneath his raggedy field coat there was a bulge at his hip. She wondered, in a vaguely interested sort of way, if he actually knew how to use the gun or if he just enjoyed pretending he was a man while flashing it around.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“And “the government”—well, Red had zero confidence that the government would be able to do anything. Not because it was full of bad people or there was a giant conspiracy or anything like that.
Her belief came from the fact that she could read and think and knew that the departments that address pandemics were underfunded and unprepared for the scope of the problem. She also knew that while the wheels of governing ground exceedingly fine, they were also slow as hell. By the time funding was authorized it would be too late. And it was.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“But the truth about quarantines was that you could never catch everyone in your net, not even if you tagged and tracked every person who’d come in contact with the Typhoid Mary. And in this case, there didn’t seem to be a Typhoid Mary. Instead, pockets of sickness had just bloomed up like hideous flowers in several places at once, and then spread so fast that tracing the vectors was something like impossible. And “the government”—well, Red had zero confidence that the government would be able to do anything. Not because it was full of bad people or there was a giant conspiracy or anything like that.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“She resolutely turned her back, because she didn’t want to know. She didn’t want to get caught again. She didn’t want to get dragged into some meaningless fight between men who wanted to control the way this new world was going to spin.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“And people always reduced to their least human denominators when things went bad.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“How do you know?" Red repeated each word slowly, enunciating every consonant. "If the CDC brewed up something in their lab and it accidentally was let loose in the world, do you think they would tell you?”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“There are things far more terrible than dying.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red