“It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.”
“The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.”
“No dead people beyond this door,' " he read aloud from beyond the door. " 'And, yes, if you suddenly have the ability to walk through walls, you're dead. You're not lying somewhere in a drainage ditch waiting to wake up. Get over it, and stay the hell out of my bathroom.”
“So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.”
“What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously.“I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.”
“He was discovered with his feet stuck to the ceiling in the bathroom with his head stuffed in the toilet...”