Mystery Susp Quotes

“the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I watched as the doll twitched to life. But just as the force swelled, it overwhelmed the creature. I began to move about in a most terrifying manner, its eyes shifting around the room in a crazed fashion. The rabbi put a hand over the doll's face, spoke the words again, and life left the doll....I stared at all of this, astonished, too terrified to speak and yet too fascinated to run. "We can make the golem live," Jakob said. "But we need a strong shell. a better shell. One made of porcelain." The rabbi met my eye, and I understood at last what they wanted of me..”
― Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master