"Well there was something about the way she told me it'd be alright. There was something that wasn't quite convincing in her eyes... I don't know why they call this the Devil's house, but I hear that name from time to time and I can't quite put my finger on it but I know it wasn't right..."

"I could tell he could tell from looking in my eyes he knew I knew he wouldn't be alright in the end. It's the kind of disease makes you cough, makes you wheeze... leaves an ache in your bones till you wind up dead. He passed on a Wednesday evening (at last) and I shed a tear cause' he looked so peaceful; settling into the bed like a casket."

"Please don't tell me I'm alive, I know. You'd think that I'd have noticed if I'd somewhere up and died, but it's so cold... Can you check the thermostat? Damn it all to Hell, it's broken. But what did you expect from houses this big and old? We've been here for such a long time..."

"I remember falling asleep on a Tuesday. It felt like I was out for awhile, then suddenly I was okay. When I woke up, I woke with a smile. The sun was shining in through the window, and even the arthritis was gone. I rolled over and said, 'Love, what's going on?'"

"Well I woke with my face in his hands and I thought, 'Damn it, I don't understand, cause I watched you die and I cried that night.' But that was last Wednesday... Do you have the time?"

"I think that we cheated the system... I know we're dead and gone, but nobody called it in. The Devil, he wants our souls to drag us down below. But when it comes to low places? Hell, we've got friends."

"Please don't tell me I'm alive, I know. You'd think that I'd have noticed if I'd somewhere up and died, but it's so cold... Can you check the thermostat? Damn it all to Hell, it's broken. But what did you expect from houses this big and old? We've been here for such a long time..."

"Everybody knows this house is haunted. We heard it from our fathers who knew it all along because, you see that, well, long ago one of their friends spent the night there. Now? Everybody's too scared. But all of that was so far long ago that, to be honest, we just don't know. He swears that he saw a ghost... or, maybe it was two? I don't know. We get it confused. But he's been locked away for years now. We can't find out anyhow; he mumbles on and on in tears..."

"Please don't tell me I'm alive, I know. You'd think that I'd have noticed if I'd somewhere up and died, but it's so cold... Can you check the thermostat? Damn it all to Hell, it's broken. But what did you expect from houses this big and old? We've been here for such a long time..."