Carrie Quotes
"Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not at the subconscious level where savage things grow."
"What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic."
"Girls stretched and writhed under the hot water, squalling, flicking water, squirting white bars of soap from hand to hand."
"She looked the part of the sacrificial goat, the constant butt, believer in left-handed monkey wrenches, perpetual foul-up, and she was."
"The talent is well hidden indeed; how else could it have remained submerged for centuries with only the tip of the iceberg showing above a sea of quackery?"
"Sue Snell gasped laughter from her nose and felt an odd, vexing mixture of hate, revulsion, exasperation, and pity."
"The girls stopped, realizing that fission and explosion had finally been reached."
"She shrieked. The sound was very loud in the humid locker room."
"The laughter, disgusted, contemptuous, horrified, seemed to rise and bloom into something jagged and ugly."
"She backed away, howling in the new silence, fat forearms crossing her face, a tampon stuck in the middle of her pubic hair."
"The blood was dark and flowing with terrible heaviness."
"A terrible and black foreknowledge grew in Rita Desjardin's mind."
"It staggers both imagination and belief to advance the hypothesis that Mrs Margaret White did not know she was pregnant."
"Carrie's steady, monotonous weeping went on and on."
"Imagine Chris Hargensen all bloody and screaming for mercy. With rats crawling all over her face. Good. Good. That would be good."
"If only she could make something like that happen whenever she liked."
"And if only she could be His sword and His arm."
"The red-plague circle was like blood itself-you could scrub and scrub and scrub and still it would be there, not erased, not clean."
"The ultimate shit-on, grossout, put-down, long searched for, was found."
"The girls watched her, their eyes shining solemnly."
"Carrie backed into the side of one of the four large shower compartments and slowly collapsed into a sitting position."
"It can hardly be disputed that failure to note specific instances of telekinesis during the White girl's earlier years must be attributed to the conclusions offered by White and Steams."
"The great tragedy is that we are now all Monday-morning quarterbacks..."
"The phenomenon has most reliably been reported in times of crisis or in stress situations."
"The phenomenon is often confused with the work of poltergeists, which are playful spirits."
"You apparently haven't realized all the implications of in loco parentis in this matter, Mr Hargensen."
"The sanctions against your daughter stand. If you care to take the matter further, that is your right."
"Jesus watches from the wall. But his face is cold as stone. And if he loves me - As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?"
"I'm hoping it'll bring her out of herself a little ... knock down some of the barriers."
"I took the punishment because I thought I earned it. We did a suck-off thing. End of statement."
"But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions."
"I almost killed myself when he put it in me."
"The Lord works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform."
"The only way to kill sin, true black sin, was to drown it in the blood of a repentant heart."
"It was time to teach them a lesson. Time to show them a thing or two."
"Let the streets be filled with the smell of their sacrifice."
"The flames had reached next door; even now sparks would be lighting softly on the roof that rocks had punched brutally through a thousand years before."
"Progress is already being made toward complete isolation of the TK gene. Yet TK is not a germ; it is as much a part of the afflicted person as the color of his eyes."
"If overt TK ability occurs as a part of puberty, we shall certainly be forewarned. But in this case, is forewarned forearmed?"
"And even if isolation could be made successful, would the American people allow a small, pretty girl-child to be ripped away from her parents at the first sign of puberty to be locked in a bank vault for the rest of her life?"
"I wish I could write you a melody so plain/ That would save you, dear lady, from going Insane/ That would ease you and cool you and cease the pain/Of your useless and pointless knowledge."
"This little book is done now. I hope it sells well so I can go someplace where nobody knows me. I want to think things over, decide what I'm going to do between now and the time when my light is carried down that long tunnel into blackness."
"And so we must conclude that, while an autopsy performed on the subject indicates some cellular changes which may indicate the presence of some paranormal power, we find no reason to believe that a recurrence is possible or even likely."
"The other day while she was playing in the dirt beside the house I sneaked around and saw the funniest thing. Annie was playing with her brother's marbles only they were moving around all by themselves."
"It gave me a real bad turn to think on it. I sure hope she doesn't get heart spells like grandma did, remember?"
"Still our Annie is awfully pretty & her eyes are as bright as buttons. I bet she'll be a world beater someday."