I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make.

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.

Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.