Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.