Don't Fear the Reaper Quotes

“Because she’s Jade fucking Daniels. And a thousand men like you can’t even reach up to touch her combat boots.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“Fifty thousand ancestors, going back and back, each of them a final girl. But, that’s just it, isn’t it? They were plural, not singular, that’s where horror movies have it all wrong, that’s where the slasher lies: it’s not about a lone girl carving her way to daylight, is it? It’s about two girls making it across the ice together.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“It’s stupid being superstitious like that, he knows, but if you don’t have private little rituals, the days can lose their meaning real fast.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“It’s Jade, sir,” Jade says back, and breathes all the corruption in her lungs out. Well, not the blackness, she supposes. Not the horror. Never that.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“Now you’re the adult who doesn’t believe this is really happening. And, what always happens to that adult? Do you still remember, or do you forget all the true things when you grow up, Peter Pan?”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“That’s not me anymore, I told you! I was a scared little girl, I thought— I thought if I knew all the rules, then that would mean—that would mean nothing would happen to me!”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“She doesn’t look to the skeletal line of hedges, either. They were never tall enough to Michael behind,”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“Freddy never uses a gun, does he? Ghostface? Michael? Jade can’t even imagine Michael Myers using a gun. They’re so impersonal, so “all at once” instead of “one at a time.” Jason Voorhees? C’mon. He’ll use a speargun, sure, but that’s just for a 3-D gag. No, any self-respecting slasher finding a pistol in his hand, what he’s supposed to do is look down at it like it’s a strange bug, then shake his hand until this bitey, attention-drawing thing is gone again.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“When you live and breathe horror, then your dreams, they can kind of match up with that, can’t they? It’s not called nightmare fuel for nothing.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“Jade closes her eyes in pain, then opens them back fast, because, in a slasher, you watch your six, your twelve, your ten and two—if you don’t keep the whole goddamn clock in view at all times, then someone’ll pull the pointer hands up from that clock, jam them through your skull.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“car heaters, before bags of beef jerky. On a day like this? Every day, wouldn’t have it just been easier to die? Except—they didn’t. They pushed through. They insisted. They fought. Fifty thousand ancestors, going back and back, each of them a final girl.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“He’s not following any of the rules, is he?”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“Does he not know the rules, though? Slashers aren’t into guns. One of the papers she wrote for Mr. Holmes, even, back in the days of extra credit, was how the reason bullets never can take the slasher down is that they’re not in the gun economy at all, are far outside it, like there’s some unspoken deal in place: I won’t use you, you can’t hurt me.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“We’re not asking the real question, are we?” Letha the philosopher says, then. “What do you mean?” Jennifer asks. “Craven or Carpenter? Jason or Freddy? Psycho or Peeping Tom? Bava or Argento?”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“Sarah Michelle Gellar was in two marquee slashers in the same year,” Letha says right back. “But she’s no Linnea.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“You really named her ‘Linnea’?” “Linnea’s a survivor.” “She dies in every movie.” “Her characters do, but she goes from movie to movie,” Letha says. “She never dies.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“It’s not easy, being a terrible person.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“Just, if Adrienne had another female voice, it might… help her?” “I mostly just know horror stories.” “Good,” Letha says. “I want her to be tough like you. Strong, I mean. A fighter.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“A second later, a third knife sticks into the doorframe, the two sides of its handle calving off as well, tapping into the hardwood floor one by one, like they tried to hold on, they really did, but… they’re just from the dollar store, come on, this is all they could manage.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“They were never tall enough to Michael behind,”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“certain Abelard and Heloise allegations between a history teacher and his formerly favorite student,”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“Virgins can’t die. Their hymens are like armor.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“One thing about Idaho: it don’t look good if it’s not riddled with bullet holes.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper