Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.

People love to hate the gravedigger.

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires