Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers.

Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.

Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.

I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

All I did was die,' I said. 'And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing.