“After a while the cops started getting calls from people reporting all the missing thieves.”

Chauncey Leopardi - Michael 'Squints' Palledorous

“I wonder why your story never wavers from exactly the same words. It suggests either that you have an extraordinary memory... or you're telling the plain, unvarnished truth.”

James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

“I find a murder in a detective story much more sympathetic than a real murder.”
Kurt Katch - Colonel Haki

“That's not because there are most ghosts here then other places, mind you. It's just that people who live here about are strangely aware of them. You see, day and night, year in, year out, they listen to the pound and stir of the waves. There's life and death in that restless sound. And eternity too.”

Ray Milland - Roderick Fitzgerald

“By the time we get here, which I guess should be the end, you're going to know the story of Freak the Mighty, who slayed dragons, saved maidens, and walked high above the world.”

Elden Henson - Maxwell Kane