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1 " Amity was the cold, steady gaze of a double-barreled shotgun, bearing down. She was the glint of pinprick pupils gleaming through a night-lit window, the rythmic blast of a door left banging in a gale wind. The slither of a flesh-flayed limb beneath a bed skirt, a welcome note etched in blood. Amity's forever was reflected in the glimmering edge of an ax, in the rushing footprints, the twitching tail, the brushing fingertips of a zephyr, a cipher, a wordless, formless shape. "
― Micol Ostow , Amity
2 " But every once in a while, I could be normal. I could be the way other people are all the time. I could be nice. Once in a while. "
3 " I thought then that Amity was already all mine. I didn't realise it was actually the other way around. "
4 " There's probably a fancy doctor's term for it, some chemical misfires in my brain that make me who I am. But, plainly put, it's this: I am evil. And I don't mind at all. "
5 " But the gun was here. Cold, solid steel against my palm. I wrapped one finger around the trigger. And smiled. "
6 " Amity's inhuman. More than human. And she's inside of me. I'm inhuman right now, too. "
7 " Jughead. This is Riverdale. The town that time forgot. Does anyone here have any idea what decade it actually is? "
― Micol Ostow , The Maple Murders (Riverdale, #3)
8 " Gloria Steinem called; your betrayal of second-wave feminism is complete. "