White Bird in a Blizzard Quotes

  • Kat Connor: I miss fucking you.

  • Detective Scieziesciez: Once there was this... obese man. Some sick fuck had doused him with gasoline and then lit him on fire. And by the time we got to the body, two days later, he was still burning.

    Kat Connor: What?

    Detective Scieziesciez: Guy had so much body fat he's like a human candle.

  • Kat Connor: [narrating] I was seventeen when my mother disappeared. Just as I was becoming nothing *but* my body - flesh and blood and raging hormones - she stepped out of hers and left it behind.

  • Kat Connor: [narrating] Dr. Thaler reminds me of an actress playing the therapist. And when we have a session, I feel like an actress playing myself.

  • Kat Connor: I know Phil's not the smartest crayon in the box.

    Mickey: That is the understatement of century.

    Kat Connor: That's what I kind of like about him, you know. He's just simple. I know it sounds perverse, but he's kind of like my dad in that way. You scratch the surface, and there's just more surface.

  • Kat Connor: Because I never saw my mother again, she remains in absence to me. An empty space. An invisible, half remembered ghost. So even now I catch myself thinking that I'm gonna run into her some day. Like I'll be at a stop light, and look over at the car next to me and there she'll be, scowling at me with disapproval. Or I'll spot her across some crowded street, or train station, and we'll run toward each other like one of those cheesy TV movies. She'll hug me like a long, lost lover, then take my face in her long, graceful hands, look me in the eyes and say... "I'm here, Kat. I'm here."

Extended Reading
  • Joaquin 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    The interweaving of American-style middle-class fantasy and geeky teenage dreams, with retro family affection in the horror, and harmonious love in the metamorphosis, both weird and warm, a bit of a teenage version of Lynch's fun

  • Eusebio 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    When the green baby opened the door to catch the rape, and suddenly started laughing, I laughed too