Charlie Fenton’s Reviews > Rosemary's Baby > Status Update

‘The silver ornament was a crucifix hanging upside down, with the black ribbon wound and knotted around Jesus’s ankles.
The thought of her baby lying helpless amid sacrilege and horror brought tears to Rosemary’s eyes, and suddenly a longing dragged at her to do nothing but collapse and weep, to surrender completely before such elaborate and unspeakable evil.’

‘She flipped through the rest of the book, pausing near the end to read other underlinings. ‘The stubborn fact remains,’ one read, ‘that whether or not we believe, they most assuredly do.’ And a few pages later: ‘the universally held belief in the power of fresh blood’. And ‘surrounded by candles, which needless to say are also black’.‘

“All right, a lot of unpleasant things have happened there. That doesn’t mean that more of them are going to happen. I don’t see why the Bramford is any more of a “danger zone” than any other house in the city. You can flip a coin and get five heads in a row; that doesn’t mean that the next five flips are going to be heads too, and it doesn’t mean that the coin is any different from any other coin.“