Slenderman Quotes

“She saw the world as full of malicious forces, and felt especially, "fearful of harm from others that she cannot predict or control." She wanted to stand up for herself, but in her mind, asking her mom for an apology could put the whole relationship at risk.”
― Kathleen Hale, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

“With no one to talk to, aside from the airy figures born of her unquiet mind, the little girl who'd once proudly thought of herself as an outsider began to feel lonely.”
― Kathleen Hale, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

“Het let her tease him about his old man ears and his old man nose because he saw the sickness weighing on her and wanted to carry some of it. 'Grandpa's got big shoulders,' he told her.”
― Kathleen Hale, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

“Sickness had cooked her brain like a fever.”
― Kathleen Hale, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

“Grit and avoidance had served Midwesterners for centuries. In Wisconsin, winters lasted up to nine months. Night fell early and lasted well into the next day. Living in darkness could trigger mental illnesses; in the 1800s, newspapers printed stories about settlers walking naked into the snow or massacring their families in the middle of a hailstorm. Giant wolves prowled the prairie land. Those who survived with minds intact developed a high emotional threshold for isolation and bone-chilling cold. They learned to cope with the elements by repressing their feelings.”
― Kathleen Hale, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

“We don’t need mentally ill people in society. People who do something for nonsense, it’s like a mad dog.”
― Kathleen Hale, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

“Woodwork proved expensive, so the hospital opted for wicker caskets—a widespread practice at poorhouses and insane asylums at the time that some say spawned the colloquialism “basket cases.”
― Kathleen Hale, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

“Wisconsin was home to many strange laws, some of which sounded like actual riddles. (“Whenever two trains meet at an intersection, neither should proceed until the other one has.”)”
― Kathleen Hale, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

“might be a migraine, voices that seemed like an excuse. Perhaps if Morgan had known about Matt’s illness, or if her parents had”
― Kathleen Hale, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls