Amelia slipped closer to them, closer to the flames, intent on watching the conflagration. It seemed something akin to a pagan ritual, but then, the kids wouldn’t have known anything about this. It was simple mayhem to them

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Consider also:

  1. “‘Why do you think it does work? It’s not as if any of this stuff is true.’ ‘Maybe devils love ritual as much as people do,’ she said.”
  2. “The Pilgrims, who talked about peace but prepared for war, wouldn’t have understood. These people had outgrown their ancestors. A new world would come out of it, before everything was said and done.”
  3. “Oh God, it came to him instantly as he slipped out of sleep like a soft turd squeezed free of a loose asshole”