I Was a Teenage Slasher Quotes

“When your dad dies, whenever in life you are, you realize that you’ve either got to hold yourself up, now, or just start falling and falling.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“It’s six minutes of my life, tops, but some memories you don’t measure in minutes or miles, but by how much of yourself is still in that moment.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“It’s less about survival, more about who you’re holding when that big irradiated shockwave blows you to ash.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“But you also remember the first time you saw your final girl in her true light, and how your vision tunneled down, your mind pulsing her, her, her.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“The world’s so much simpler when you’ve got a chainsaw in your hand, isn’t it? A chainsaw or a machete or an axe, that’s the elegant solution to every problem.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“We all want to hide, don’t we? To not have to be constantly navigating between our true self and people’s expectations twenty-four seven?”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“But I also had ... not sure what to call it exactly. Willful blindness? Selective idiocy? Hopefulness. I think that's what it was[.]”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“Old slashers may not die, but they can, if they’re careful, if they’re conscientious, stop killing.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“People who talk like education is a bad thing are usually doing that because they’re afraid of it.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“The crowd I do run with are… well. We’re the ones with black hearts and red hands. Masks and machetes.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“…whoever said that your musical tastes, for better or for worse, are usually forged in the most intense period of your life aren’t really a thing you can ever undo—ding ding ding.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“Can I explain how intense and wonderful and fast and slow and beautiful and forever it is to have your actual final girl right there within reach? The world blurs away, just falls somewhere else, and she––she’s the only thing there is anymore. The only thing that matters. Your world is her her her. If that’s not love, then I guess I don’t know what love is.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“I was a teenage slasher, yeah, okay. I said it.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“I could pay for my crimes. Pay in blood, which is really the only currency there is in the world.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“You always want your mom when you’re hurt. When you call your dad is when you’ve done something he can maybe be proud of. For pain, though, it’s moms all the way.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“If it feels true than it's true enough, isn't it?”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“I’ll never be a parent, I don’t think? Except in the sense of copycat killers, I suppose. Up-and-comers who strap on a mask, grind their machete sharp enough to carve through half a prom. But that’s a different kind of offspring.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“People who wear plaid pants and hit small balls aren’t exactly the crowd I run with. The crowd I do run with are… well. We’re the ones with black hearts and red hands. Masks and machetes.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“Rebuild that ridiculous little Rabbit truck and drive it right into the screaming heart of Texas, and know that I can still smell your hair in that bench grinder, I can still smell Spam burning in the pan like victory, and know that, in my heart, I'm lying beside you on the grass of an empty football field one July afternoon in Lamesa, Texas.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“You’re bad luck, Tolly Driver.” That felt about right.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“I don’t know what it is, but when pen’s to page, when my fingers are to the grimy keys of this keyboard, then…I don’t know.
The world feels right? I guess that’s the best way to say it. It’s like I’m finally at the controls that matter, like these are the ones I can maybe turn the world with.
With words, I can compete.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher

“sometimes nothing keeps me together at the seams ––NIKKI SIXX”
― Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher