A Head Full Of Ghosts Quotes
"I'm only twenty-three but if anyone asks I tell them that I'm a quarter-century-minus-two years old. I like watching people struggle with the math in their heads."
"The story itself I don’t fully trust. It’s certainly not my story. It does not belong to me."
"I’m almost overwhelmed by how comfortable I feel. As weird as it sounds, it’s surprisingly nice to be back home."
"There are some parts of this that I remember in great, terrible detail, so much so I fear getting lost in the labyrinth of memory."
"I’m better than some. More often than not, they keep me."
"You’re in heaven with who you think is Grampy. You can never be sure that any of the other ghosts around you are not all disguised demons."
"I’m not well, Merry. I don’t mean to frighten you. I’m sorry."
"You have to remember that story about the two sisters. You have to remember all my stories because there are—there are all these ghosts filling my head and I’m just trying to get them out."
"I’ll never have kids but if I were suddenly and inexplicably cursed to be a mother, I solemnly swear to answer any questions my child might have, tell my child everything, and to not withhold even one single nasty detail."
"I can be in here too if I want." Unlike her bedroom, or mine for that matter, the small sunroom felt like a safe place with its bright natural light amplified by the cheery yellow walls and its simple, cozy rectangular shape.
"I’m not trying to be a smartass, but that’s hard for me to say. I haven’t lived anyone else’s normal experience to compare mine to."
"Ideas that are as old as humanity, maybe older, right? Maybe those ideas were out there just floating around before us, just waiting to be thought up."
"I was relieved to no longer be in the basement by myself, and I was happy to see Marjorie dressed and walking about on her own."
"I’ll never forgive Marjorie for what she said to me then, and I’ll never forgive myself for staying in the sunroom and taking it all."
"I thought she would never stop. Standing there, I felt the sun pour through the windows, setting and rising on my back."
"Sometimes it’s good to be sad, Merry. Don’t forget that."
"I decided that I would. I would still be able to hum the song when I didn’t have a tongue."
"We waited and watched. Dad suddenly jolted as if given an electric shock and knocked into the table."
"We were contemplative and quiet; unsure of what was happening, unsure of what to do, even after it ended."
"It was my turn to leave. They shipped me away to stay with Dad’s sister, my Auntie Erin."
"I told the camera a story about Marjorie sneaking up on me in the basement, her saying weird stuff to me like she had before, her eyes being all white, her eating dirt, making her tongue into a black worm, and how she made the lights go out."
"I knew that not only could I say no, but that he couldn’t get mad and start yelling at me. So I said no, and I told him that church was creepy."
"Ken had a little black notebook on the table in front of him and he jotted down some notes. He was my parents’ age but he looked younger."
"We both switched legs and stopping techniques. Ken let the ball roll up his foot and into the air, then kicked it with his other foot."
"Marjorie was in the hallway, yawning and stretching, hair all over the place, sticking out at odd angles."
"Everyone milled about the first floor, eating pizza and drinking out of red cups."
"Despite my promise to not say anything, I thought about telling Ken what she’d told me."
"Marjorie was in bed, under the covers, lying on her side, her head turned away from me."
"I was wearing a long-sleeved Wonder Woman T-shirt and blue sweatpants."
"We can take the house back downstairs tomorrow if you want."
"He gave pep talks about how our family would overcome."
"Mom told me that after everything was done, maybe we’d go for a visit."
"She spent her evenings on the phone with her parents."
"All I knew was that the kid who called me 'Sister Satan' was suddenly not at school."
"Mom wasn’t about to keep me home from school."
"I remember him telling me that 'going there fills me with hope.'"
"Mom said, 'I—I don’t know. Maybe for a really long time.'"
"I wanted to tell him that this, all of this, wasn’t about him."
"We’re continually shown those same safe shots until by process of literal elimination we’re down to two blood samples."
"The repeated shot of Russell dipping the hot needle into the blood is a 'safe' shot."
"Each time, we’re shown the same camera angle. It’s a perspective from the middle of the room so both he and Marjorie are in profile."
"The second time he pulls up the comforter reinforces this, so much so that our focus remains with the voice of Father Wanderly."
"Marjorie strikes like a cobra and clamps down on Father Gavin’s wrist, it’s totally unexpected and horrifying."
"We can see red in the pixels and the damage we imagine is likely worse than what they could’ve shown us."
"The Father Gavin attack scene is a worthy penultimate act for what I would argue is one of the most disturbing endings of a television show."
"Moments after the attack on Father Gavin the major players are either writhing on the floor or screaming for help."
"The audio only gains a focus when Meredith clearly shouts, 'I hate you! I hate you so much! I wish you were dead.'"
"It’s an oddly voyeuristic vantage point without us actually being … well … voyeurs."
"The camera remains focused on the stairwell. We’re so afraid of what we’re going to see, we can barely watch."
"The camera pans, putting Meredith in the lower left corner of our TV screen."
"Meredith turns around. We only see the back of her head."
"Six excruciating seconds pass before Meredith turns around again to face the camera."
"As Meredith turns around to face the camera, Marjorie jumps up over the railing."
"Marjorie is still rising above the railing and her hair parts, opening like wings, but we still can’t see her face."
"Meredith screams. We don’t hear her but her screams shake the camera so that the edges and details of our viewing window blur and start to dim."
"The camera angle. We simply can’t tell the precise moment when she starts to fall because we’re looking up at her."
"Ultimately, you think she’s floating because you want to believe it."
"There’s a story about them drunkenly slapping each other in the face after a date-night gone bad."
"I was in my bedroom three days later when Auntie Erin came over to the house and found me. Found us."