Episode Thirteen Quotes

“Not all ghosts haunt houses. Some try to live in your head.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“The Buddhists are right: Life is illusion. Quantum mechanics is also right: Reality is a construct of human observation. Even time itself isn’t real.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“I remember our lives together, all our hopes and joy and sadness and dreams, and it all seems so meaningless and also piercingly beautiful, a single act in an endlessly repeating play in which the actors constantly change. A play in which the story doesn’t matter but whose continuation is essential.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“If your delusion is actually true, are you still insane?”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“As the Buddhists say, everything is illusion. Everything is energy, and as it is above, so it is below,”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“That’s the thing about extroverts and introverts. The extrovert usually sets the agenda.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“It’s a love for truth, coupled with a belief that anything is possible”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Not all ghosts haunt houses. Some try to live in your head”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“For science, the problem is simple. If a ghost is made of energy, it will constantly bleed its own essence as heat in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics. A sustained haunting would require a constant power flux.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“And he finally achieved another desire, which is to learn what comes after death. He learned that everyone lives forever in one form or another. Everyone receives immortality.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Anomalies don’t mean ghosts. They’re simply things I can’t explain.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Roebuck and Chapman stand behind a seated woman wearing a hospital gown and the bulky steel apparatus on her head. She is pale and crying. The front of her gown is dark with a brownish vomit stain. The skin around her eyes is similarly dark as well as puffy. The eyes themselves appear haunted. Behind her, the men grin. Roebuck pops a champagne bottle and pours Chapman a splash in a Dixie cup. He leans to pour a little for the woman, which stays untouched on the table in front of her. He takes his own swig directly from the bottle. Gloria Flick walks on-screen holding up a sign on which she scrawled WE DID IT! The seated woman stops crying. Eyes glassy and deranged, she looks directly into the camera lens while the researchers go on celebrating. Her face shines with madness as it stretches into a broad, lunatic grin.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“On the left wall, someone spray-painted the slogan: YOU’RE EITHER ON THE BUS OR OFF THE BUS! And on the right, like a magic incantation: !SUB EHT FFO RO SUB EHT NO REHTIE ER’UOY The quote is by Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and a major counterculture figure in the sixties. On the cross-country Great Bus Trip of 1964, he and his Merry Pranksters took their Acid Tests on the road. Whenever the bus stopped, a Prankster would wander off and could not be found, leading Kesey to declare, “You’re either on the bus or off the bus.” Either part of the group’s trip or left behind to do your own thing.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Maybe it’s also because even though I don’t believe, I sometimes wish there was real evidence so I could. Sometimes, I want to believe I can believe.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“but when I asked if there was a Santa Claus, the folks said, “Some people believe there’s a Santa, some people don’t. What do you believe?” The same went with the Easter bunny, tooth fairy, and God. They exposed me to spirituality and various religions but didn’t raise me in one, trusting I’d choose for myself when I was old enough to be able to choose. Anything else, they saw as brainwashing.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“I fully understand every time an African American appears on TV, the whole race is being judged.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“I’m a single mom, and I work a lot of hours. It doesn’t make me a bad parent. It makes me an adult living in the United States of America.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“We spend so much time every day without really being aware we’re alive. It’s the greatest thing when someone reminds us we exist and that we matter.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“The moral of the story is knowledge destroys innocence and produces suffering.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Most of my life, I’ve been a dead man trapped in a live body. Cursed.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“The trick is, ghosts aren’t easy to talk to. If it was easy, they’d tap you on the shoulder while you’re making supper and ask you if you’d be willing to discuss their feelings about your house being built on their burial ground.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“You know how they tell you on the plane to put the oxygen mask on yourself before your kid? The same goes with life.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“In Greek mythology, the titan Prometheus stole fire and gave it to humans, creating civilization. As punishment, Zeus bound him to a rock and each day sent an eagle to eat his liver, the organ where the Greeks thought human emotions resided. The moral of the story is knowledge brings eternal emotional torment. In the Garden of Eden, the serpent tempts Eve and Adam to eat forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. God punishes them by banishing them. The moral of the story is knowledge destroys innocence and produces suffering. The list goes on and on. It’s an archetypal idea. Every overreaching mad scientist in every sci-fi movie is another retelling of this ancient story. Me, I say grab the fire. I say eat the fruit. I say bring on the suffering. The history of science is one of pain, broken dreams, and occasional triumph. This is the march of progress. This is the wheel of civilization.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“In Greek mythology, the titan Prometheus stole fire and gave it to humans, creating civilization. As punishment, Zeus bound him to a rock and each day sent an eagle to eat his liver, the organ where the Greeks thought human emotions resided. The moral of the story is knowledge brings eternal emotional torment. In the Garden of Eden, the serpent tempts Eve and Adam to eat forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. God punishes them by banishing them. The moral of the story is knowledge destroys innocence and produces suffering.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“inside, but my fears proved unfounded. The inside is as amazing as the outside. The first impression is actually a bit of a shock. You know you’re instantly being transported back in time; you’re just not sure to which decade. The architecture is grand, with classical elements,”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“I have an idea, I'll buy that book, and you buy mine, and we'll talk about them over dinner.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Intent—the core you, the real you, defined as your single driving desire—attracts result.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“There are four known categories of hauntings. One is where an event imprints energy onto the environment. At some trigger, the event replays itself like a tape. Another is inhuman, which might be demonic or elemental. A third is poltergeist, where a spirit uses a human as an agent for telekinetic activity. And the last is typically what we investigate, which is an intelligent haunting. That’s where the spirit is conscious, intelligent, and may be willing to communicate.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“I’ll tell you what does scare me, though. People. If you think about all the terrible things a single human being is capable of rationalizing and doing, it’s amazing we have enough trust to function as a society.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“So much of what made me Claire was a projection of genetics, chemicals, and environment. Take them all away, and what are you? Just a ghost.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen