Undead Girl Gang Quotes
"The problem with your best friend dying is that there’s no one to sit with you at funerals."
"Everyone is crying. It’s standing room only for a sea of red-eyed, sniffling Fairmont Falcons."
"I’ve cried so much in the last forty-eight hours I think my organs have started to shrivel."
"Two days is a long time when you can’t sleep or eat because remembering that your best friend is gone slams into you whenever you think you’re safe from it."
"She didn’t need a way out. She would have told me if she did. I’m sure of it."
"Despite our town being named after its twin bodies of water, no one in Cross Creek actually goes near the creeks."
"Magic makes my parents vaguely annoyed and uncomfortable; it made the Greenways livid."
"There’s hope. For the first time since Riley went down to the creek, something other than darkness cracks open in my chest."
"We’re blister sisters. Blisters before misters."
"Most magic is just telling the universe you’re thankful to be here."
"Actually," I say on a shaky exhale, "there is something that I need your help with."
"The dead do not walk. Not ever. Not even for a moment."
"Whatever magic you work comes back against you times three."
"People need to stay dead. And some people have to go early."
"Rosemary for remembrance, salt to ward off negativity. It’s a mourning bag."
"Everything else is mostly what you’d expect from a resurrection spell, blood and bone and breath."
"There’s no winning. So, I’m going to stay alone for everyone’s sake."
"The next full moon is Saturday, so I have one shot."
"We could get ants," I say, looking over Nora’s shoulder at Izzy, who shrugs.
"My friend is dead. My friend was murdered. And I’m alone."
"Magic is real. Riley is real. Magic and Riley are here with me!"
"I have to go back to school tomorrow, I think," I say.
"We’ll go to Yarrow House. We can come up with a plan from there."
"No. You aren’t," I say. "You’re visiting life."
"It’s not like I’m mourning you guys anymore."
"I would like a change of clothes. Any chance my parents did my roots before they buried me?"
"What is the last thing you remember, Ry?" I ask.
"I don’t like that you know things about me that I don’t."
"We really can’t see our families again," Dayton says softly.
"You come back to kill the fucker who offed you."
"Friends shouldn’t spend your memorial spreading rumors about you."
"This is actually the most embarrassed I’ve ever been for another human being," June says.
"Some fellows look and find the sunshine. I always look and find the rain."
"I shouldn't be surprised that she knows how to play it."
"You live in a funeral home," Dayton says shrilly. "It's a scary place!"
"We didn’t ask to come back to life! You brought us here."
"Excuse you," June says. "Riley was only there because she’s Xander’s sister. No one thought she was cool."
"Nothing says fuck off like eyeliner as dark and heavy as my soul."
"That which rots you marks you, motherfucker."
"Mostly by accident! And you must have fucked it up because you brought me back without my magic."
"Unless your organic ingredients included eye of newt and toe of bitch!"
"No one has formed an angry mob with pitchforks and torches, so I don’t think she’s been spotted yet."
"You are nonstop interviewing people. You pry into conversations, take notes on gossip you hear in bathrooms, and then you print it, praying that this will be the story that people actually read even though no one ever does."
"Feeling a bit like I’m being kicked out of the clubhouse, I run back upstairs."
"The house isn’t big enough for me to get a hundred steps away, so I go out into the chill of the night and walk into the woods until I feel the snap of the thread connecting me to the girls."
"I really wish I had Harry Potter–style magic, where I could point a wand and have the door magically open for him."
"I snap the elastic band at my wrist. I don’t know if I still need to wear it, but the snapping has become a habit."
"I’m panting as I rush down the stairs to the basement again. This isn’t the most menacing entrance for the Grand High Witch of Cross Creek, but I don’t need to worry, because Caleb doesn’t notice me."
"You’re the only one of us with anything to lose."
"Even Cross Creek PD couldn’t ignore a shotgun blast to the head. I don’t think."
"God doesn’t get mad at you, Mila. No matter what your mean old witches say."
"I’ve never had to hide from you. I don’t ever want to have to hide from you."
"I’m so aware of every shift of his body beside me that it becomes the only thing in the world."
"I wish she were here. I wish I knew she was safe."
"You think just because you did one big spell that you’re good at this, but you’re not. Everything you’ve touched has gone to shit!"
"You should have left me in the fucking ground. You should have left all of us alone. Don’t ruin Xander, too."
"You’re an abomination. My best friend—my real best friend—wouldn’t protect a murderer."
"I might not remember dying, but I remember Xander. We were friends."
"If only one of us is going to be thinking clearly, I’m fine with it being me."
"Another girl is not going to die. I won’t let it happen."
"Normally, I want to stay under the radar, but tonight I want to be as conspicuous as possible."
"There’s nowhere to step on the rotting porch that doesn’t come with a screech or groan of wood, so I walk with my usual sense of purpose."
"I’m not going anywhere until someone tells me what the hell is going on."
"Cold dread settles deep under my skin, spreading all the way out to my fingertips."
"He looks from the hilt of the dagger to me and back again, a moth on display in a burning museum."
"Yarrow House is erased, piece by piece, in fire as orange as a sunrise."
"The urge to rip the grimoire out of Riley’s arms and find the recipe for putting off this goodbye is almost too much to bear."
"After the last verse, her notes are still floating on the air, trapped in fog, when the earth trembles and the graveyard goes silent."