“The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.”
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
“Throughout his twenty-eight years on the island, goats are as wild as it gets.”
“Yes," she moaned, and then nodded, just in case he didn't get the picture, because if he didn't, dear God, she was going to drown him in the bathtub. And wouldn't that be embarrassing to explain to the police and all the family?”
“THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait.”