“Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.”
“No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
“When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.”
“A culture of secrecy is like the bad stench created by cat pee—it is very difficult to get rid of.”
“She's a parasite I can't seem to get rid of. Like a bad case of financial diarrhea.”
“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”