“I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.”

“ 'So what happens next?' 'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.' 'Like any other story, then.' ”

“The ritual worked. That is the most ghastly thing. I hold no particular brief for the rationality of the world, but that this vile obscenity should actually have the power to bring back the dead seems to me not merely a sign that the world is not rational, but that it is in fact entirely insane, a murderous lunatic gibbering in the corner of a padded cell.”

“I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.”

“The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.”