✨"A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort."✨ (3)
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“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
pp. 251, paperback edition of Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
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#girlpower
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Amma Crellin's monologue from "Milk"
I’d be Persephone. She’s the Queen of the Dead. [...] I feel sorry for Persephone because even when she’s back with the living, people are afraid of her because of where’s she’s been and even when she’s with her mother, she’s not really happy, because she knows she’ll have to go back underground.
i feel sorry for persephone because even when she’s back with the living, people are afraid of her because of where’s she’s been. and even when she’s with her mother, she’s not really happy, because she knows she’ll have to go back underground.
Sylvia Plath, "Witch Burning"
I’m Persephone. Queen of the Underworld. She’s married to that big dude… Hades. He runs hell, but she’s in charge of punishment. But I feel sorry for Persephone because even when she’s back with the living, they’re still afraid of her because of where she’s been.
I'm Persephone, Queen of the Underworld. She's married to that big dude...Hades? He runs hell, but she's in charge of punishment. But I feel sorry for Persephone because even when she's back with the living, they're afraid of her because of where she's been. Kinda funny, huh? How many stories they have where princesses need to get rescued from witches. Wind Gap has one even. Little girls yanked from the woods by the Woman in White.
“Walking past Amma’s room, I saw her sitting very properly on the edge of a rocking chair, reading a book called Greek Goddesses. Since I’d been here, she’d played at being Joan of Arc and Bluebeard’s wife and Princess Diana-all martyrs, I realized. She’d find even unhealthier role models among the goddesses.”
pp. 123, paperback edition of Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
“I particularly mourn the lack of female villains - good, potent female villains. [...] I’m talking violent, wicked women. Scary women. Don’t tell me you don’t know some. The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves - to the point of almost parodic encouragement - we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important.”
Amma Crellin
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Don't tell mama.
Eliza Scanlen as Amma Crellin
“Camille, if you could be any fairy-tale person in the world, who would you be?” Amma asked. “Sleeping Beauty.” To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely. “I’d be Persephone.” “I don’t know who that is,” I said. “She’s the Queen of the Dead,” Amma beamed. “She was so beautiful, Hades stole her and took her to the underworld to be his wife. But her mother was so fierce, she forced Hades to give Persephone back. But only for six months each year. So she spends half her life with the dead, and half with the living.”
pp. 235, paperback edition of Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Amma "pay attention to me and only me or else" Crellin
One night I woke to find Amma standing over my bed.
"You like Lily better than me," she whispered. She was feverish, her nightgown clinging to her sweaty body, her teeth chattering. I guided her into the bathroom, sat her down on the toilet, wet a washcloth under the cool, metallic water of the sink, wiped her brow. Then we stared at each other. Slate blue eyes just like Adora's. Blank. Like a winter pond.
pp. 245, paperback edition of Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
On October 12, Lily Burke disappeared on her way home from school. Four hours later, her body was found, propped tidily next to a Dumpster three blocks from our apartment. Only six of her teeth had been pulled, the oversized front two and four on the bottom.
pp. 246, paperback edition of Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Amma killed Lily all by herself, hit her on the back of the head with a stone, then strangled her with bare hands, plucked the six teeth, and cut her hair. All down an alley, behind that Dumpster where she'd left the body. She'd brought the rock, pliers, and scissors to school in the hot pink backpack I'd bought for her.
Lily Burke's chocolate-colored hair Amma braided into a rug for my room in her dollhouse.
pp. 248, paperback edition of Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
“I’m Persephone. Queen of the Underworld. She’s married to that big dude. Hades. He runs Hell, but she’s in charge of punishment. But I feel sorry for Persephone, because even when she’s back with the living, they’re afraid of her because of where she’s been.”
“You can come up with four thousand other guesses, of course, about why Amma did it. In the end, the fact remains: Amma enjoyed hurting. ‘I like violence,’ she’d shrieked at me. I blame my mother. A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
pp. 251, paperback edition of Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn