The story is always better than your ability to write it.

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

Can't all beasts be tamed?

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.

I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.

Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.