Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.
The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.