If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney #2)

by Stephen King

Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs. It makes me think of Jacob Marley telling Scrooge, ‘These are the chains I forged in life.’

Curiosity killed the cat, she thinks, but satisfaction brought him back.