The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.
Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.
If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.
The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.