"To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls."

"An odd thought crossed her mind: she would pick up the heavy glass ashtray and smash her husband over the head with it."

"But it's so hard to make things simple and so easy to make them complicated."

"It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream. And her head."

"Ordinary as we might be...We can choose to endure what seems unendurable..."