Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of living. Maybe there'll be a law not to live in hous… - Shirley Jackson

Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.

Although she would sooner have given up thinking than eating, she resented being pushed into depriving herself of either.

Our house is old, and noisy, and full. when we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books; I expect that when we finally overflow and move out again we will have perhaps twenty children and easily half a million books; we also own assorted beds and tables and chairs and rocking horses and lamps and doll dresses and ship models and paint brushes and literally thousands of socks.