"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within.