Death Diva Quotes

“My name is Jane Delaney and I do things my paying customers can’t do, don’t want to do, don’t want to be seen doing, can’t bring themselves to do, and/or don’t want it to be known they’d paid someone to do. To dead people.”
― Pamela Burford, Undertaking Irene

“Dean was about to dismiss me with a quick nod, but my name caught his attention. “Hey, you’re that Death Diva girl, right?”
“’Fraid so.”
“Huh.” He studied me a moment as he extracted a lighter and pack of cigarettes from his shirt pocket. I studied him back. Dean’s head bore the aftermath of what had to be the world’s worst hair transplant. Reddish brown crop rows marched back from a severe, slightly lopsided hairline. The whole mess had been meticulously blow-dried and sprayed in a swept-back style more appropriate to the 1980s.
He tapped out a cigarette. “You make money doing that?”
“Why, yes I do,” I said. “That’s kind of the point of it.” That’s the number-one question I get asked.
“What’s the weirdest thing you’ve done, eh?” The number-two question, right on schedule.”
― Pamela Burford, Uprooting Ernie