Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to, if she had ever run joyfully over grass, or had watched flowers, or known delight or love.

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

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.

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.