“Balance. Life and death is all about balance, Carlos. We dead like to think we’re so independent of the living, that we got our own thing going and those flesh-and-bone folks just get in the way. But all of our actions, even the petty stupidities we participate in, have repercussions in both our world and theirs. The universe is an echo chamber, and the echoes have no regard for that boundary between who’s alive and who’s not. We help them out; we mess with their lives; we pretend to ignore them, but they’re a part of us. And they do the same.”
