Survive the Night Quotes

“Meeting people is easy. Keeping them around is the hard part.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Sometimes you can’t simultaneously be smart, brave, and careful. Sometimes you need to choose one.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Women need to do that, you know. Look out for each other. There’s a special place in hell for those who don’t.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“No one tells women that none of it is their fault. That the blame falls squarely on the awful men who do terrible things and the fucked-up society that raises them, molds them, makes excuses for them. People don’t want to admit that there are monsters in their midst, so the monsters continue to roam free and the cycle of violence and blame continues.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“That’s the tricky thing about movies. They can be wonderful and beautiful and amazing. But they’re not like life, which is wonderful, beautiful, and amazing in a different way.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“And if Charlie’s learned anything from the movies, it’s that few things are more dangerous than someone with nothing to lose.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Movies are like life,” she finally says. “Only better.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Life has failed her time and time again. The movies have never let her down.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“A Stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Wrapped in Maddy’s red coat, she feels almost possessed by all the tough women she’s admired in movies. Stanwyck in Double Indemnity. Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai. Crawford in, well, everything. The kind of women men don’t know if they want to kiss or kill. Women who claw and scrape through life because they have to. Now it’s Charlie’s turn. She’s no longer the scared, self-loathing girl she was when she left campus. She’s something else. A fucking femme fatale.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“We all go a little mad sometimes.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Because they take our world and improve upon it,” Charlie says. “Movies are magical that way. Everything is magnified. The colors are brighter. The shadows are darker. The action more violent and the love affairs more passionate. People break out into song. Or they used to. The emotions—love, hate, fear, laughter—are all bigger. And the people! All those beautiful faces in full close-up. So beautiful it’s hard to look away.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“She blamed herself and hated herself and punished herself because that’s what women are taught to do. Blame themselves. Blame the victims. Tell themselves that since the Angela Dunleavys and Taylor Morrisons and Madeline Forresters of the world had sat through the same lessons on assault, received the same tiny bottles of pepper spray, and endured the same self-defense classes, it must have been their fault they were attacked. Or raped. Or killed. No one tells women that none of it is their fault. That the blame falls squarely on the awful men who do terrible things and the fucked-up society that raises them, molds them, makes excuses for them. People don’t want to admit that there are monsters in their midst, so the monsters continue to roam free and the cycle of violence and blame continues.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“take our world and improve upon it,” Charlie says. “Movies are magical that way. Everything is magnified. The colors are brighter. The shadows are darker. The action more violent and the love affairs more passionate. People break out into song. Or they used to. The emotions—love, hate, fear, laughter—are all bigger. And the people! All those beautiful faces in full close-up. So beautiful it’s hard to look away.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“I know, that’s what all deaths feel like. The person is there and then they’re not and you have to adjust to life without them.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“- It's hard meeting people.
- I've found that not to be true. Meeting people is easy. Keeping them around is the hard part.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Why watch TV when movies are so much better?”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Movies are my life", she had told Josh. It should have been the other way around. Charlie should have been able to say, "My life is like the movies.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“She’d been pretty once, before guilt and grief had sunk their claws into her.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Never drive more than five miles over the speed limit, cops won't bother you for that... but sometimes your only choice is to drive like hell.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“People, generally speaking, suck.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“At the time, she wasn’t much of a movie fan, despite always knowing how she got her name. That was Nana Norma’s doing. She had a thing for Hitchcock and instilled that love in Charlie’s mother.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“crash that killed your parents or who murdered your best friend. It’s hard and it hurts and it’s so unfair that sometimes it makes Charlie want to scream. But it’s life, and everyone must go on living it.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“It’s not stupid to want to believe the best in people.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“I was just looking out for you. Women need to do that, you know. Look out for each other. There's a special place in hell for those who don't.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Real life is so much better.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“No one tells women that none of it is their fault. That the blame falls squarely on the awful men who do terrible things and the fucked-up society that raises them, molds them, makes excuses for them.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“It’s a Russian doll of remorse. Guilt tucked into guilt that she’s ruining the only thing that has yet to be ruined.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“A constant pumping on the brakes of her existence. Now it’s time to start moving again, even if that movement is really just running away.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night. —All About Eve”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night