Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Quotes

  • Stella Nicholls: Stories hurt, stories heal.

  • Stella Nicholls: No, Sarah, now it's your turn to hear a story.

  • Lou Lou: You should not have taken that book.

  • Ramón Morales: Hospitals have records.

    Stella Nicholls: Records of Sarah Bellows?

    Chuck Steinberg: Then what're we still doing here? Let's go!

  • Ramón Morales: Last week they shipped my brother home from Vietnam in pieces.

    Stella Nicholls: I'm so sorry.

    Ramón Morales: Last week when I got my draft notice... I couldn't... they'd send me there to die. If the book can read me, I'm afraid what it'll say.

  • Stella Nicholls: You don't read the book. It reads you.

  • Ramón Morales: If you're serious about being a writer, it's not going to happen here. You have to go to the city.

    Stella Nicholls: I can't leave my dad.

  • Lou Lou's daughter: [turns off the TV] Tricky Dicky, no name for a president.

  • Radio DJ: Today is Election Day, people. Vote against Vietnam, vote against destruction, vote against sending our children to die!

  • Stella Nicholls: They locked her away because she was different.

  • Chuck SteinbergAuggie Hilderbrandt: Who Ordered The Chicken?

  • [repeated line]

    Jangly ManJangly Man: COWARD!

  • Tommy: [on Ruth] You're trash anyway

    Tommy: I always hated you Harrold