Nobody's Home Quotes

“To Jacky and Harriet he explained, “Ghosts from upriver get snagged here, God knows why, like leaves caught by a drain, and when a whole lot of ’em clump up, they make a sort of man, something very like a man, good enough to talk and naturally good at handling ghosts. It’s never what you’d call a particular person—it’s Nobody, in that way. And it lives on the smell of fresh blood, like they say jungle plants live on just smells in the air.”
― Tim Powers, Nobody's Home: An Anubis Gates Story

“Jacky couldn’t help barking out one syllable of a laugh. “Not noddle, dottle. The ash from a clay pipe of his.” She pointed at the glass vial. “Ceneromancy, it’s called. Magic you do with ashes. It’s kept him near me, since…since he was killed.”
― Tim Powers, Nobody's Home: An Anubis Gates Story