Battle-royale Quote by Elizabeth Cruickshank

“It was sick and wrong and profoundly twisted, and yet somehow it made us feel a lot better.”

— Dot Hutchison

“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”

— Dashiell Hammett

“Sex is powerful and beautiful and dangerous.”

— Nalo Hopkinson

“Things are often exactly what they seem---horrifying or distasteful, even repugnant and disgusting.”

— Norman Giddan

“It has been fun and harrowing.”

— David Nicholls

“My dramas mostly involved whats-as in, What on earth is that horrible creature about to rip out my throat?”

— Kiersten White

“... when things get too good and too right and too perfect, it's only because the ugly twist hasn't yet infiltrated the goodness of…

— Colleen Hoover

“Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural.”

— William Shakespeare

“It's really very unpleasant. And not being able to say anything to answer back makes it rankle more, if you know what I mean.”

— Agatha Christie

“He's like everybody else in television. And Hollywood. And Broadway. He thinks everything sentimental is tender, everything brutal is a slice of realism and…

— J D Salinger

“What is it about horrible, violent things that capture us?”

— Alexandra Bracken

“Show me life as I've learned it:blood and guts,violence and sex.”

— Charlee Jacob