Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

“Mrs. Dale was a good woman, Hollis will grant her that. A busybody and a pain i…”

“He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to…”

“People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were no…”

“In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right in…”