Joanne Harris. Chocolate (№ 273820)

With us lives evil. Evil smiling triumphantly, wearing bright clothes.
A child in fear, I heard a story about how the witch lured small children into the gingerbread house to eat them. I look at her shop in a shiny package, like a present waiting when it will open, and think, how many people, how many souls she has already irretrievably seduced.