Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

She promised to be good. She wasn't.

Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.

Didn’t anyone ask you where your parents are?"
"They asked. Especially about my parents."
"What did you tell them?"
"I said I ate them."
"Jesus, Rosa.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.