Gerald’s Game

He knew she wasn't kidding about not wanting to go on with it.

He knew, but he had chosen not to know he knew. Could a person do that?

That deep stuff had scared her. Now, all these years later, she was discovering it still did ... but it still infuriated her, as well.
You won’t put out the sun, she thought, without the slightest idea of what this meant. Be damned if you will

“Bring on the night.”