How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
The manor was a cradle of death. Holly could smell it. Behind those medieval walls lay the bodies of a million insects, and under its floors the cooling corpses of spiders and mice. (9.286)
Think about the phrase "cradle of death." Cradles are for sleeping babies, not the bodies of dead things, so why use it? It creates a mismatch between a space that should house the living but instead reeks of death.