Emily already knew there was going to be hell to pay, and she supposed there was no use allowing it to accrue interest. - M. K. Hobson

“I’ll do everything I can to help, I promise.”
“You always have,” Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.

Zombies are soulless creatures, and being soulless has been empirically proven to result in an unpleasant disposition.

Your frontier ethics are so rawboned, Miss Edwards, as rough-hewn and clumsy as the log cabin in which you must have been raised. Mrs. Stanton's face was like marble as she spoke; only her lips moved with ugly precision. Decency is striving for perfection in a world in which every other hoglike creature satisfies himself with sloppiness and indulgence. Decency is not in failing to murder someone. It's in murdering the right person, and sparing your family the indignity of getting caught.