"What fascinated us about Carrie was that her religious mother could believe that Christ performed miracles, yet when …"

"It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the …"

"On the surface, all the girls in the shower room were shocked, thrilled, ashamed, or simply glad that the White bitch…"

"Carrie stood among them stolidly, a frog among swans. She was a chunky girl with pimples on her neck and back and but…"

"The girls were bombarding her with tampons and sanitary napkins."

"She hardly would have admitted the pleasure the act gave her, and she certainly would have denied that she regarded C…"

"The concept, linked irrevocably in her mind with the "sin" of intercourse, had been blocked entirely from her mind. S…"

"She hated her face, her dull, stupid, bovine face, the vapid eyes, the red, shiny pimples, the nests of blackheads. S…"

"Did any of you stop to think that Carrie White has feelings? Do any of you ever stop to think? Sue? Fern? Helen? Jess…"

"I couldn’t see wasting two weeks, maybe even a month, creating a novella I didn’t like and wouldn’t be able to sell. …"