You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?

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

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

We've cut too much sugar cane, we've picked too much cotton, we've died too young, ... Don't give up now. It's dark, I know. But morning is coming.