E.J. Copperman > Quotes

“There couldn't be a resolution, because life doesn't end on a schedule. It ends in the middle, every time.”
― E.J. Copperman, Old Haunts

“a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something special. It's like you get extra time, Rachel--the hours you spend reading and the hours your mind spends in that place, that's time that the author gives to you.”
― E.J. Copperman, Written Off

“This ghost-seeing thing could be creepy or beautiful, and often was both at the same time.”
― E.J. Copperman, Old Haunts

“imagine there's no heaven..." he said. "Apparently someone is taking that personally.”
― E.J. Copperman

“There are times I get the feeling you don’t like me, Detective.” “Trust those feelings,” she said.”
― E.J. Copperman, Night of the Living Deed

“The Internet will tell you that a zombie apocalypse has already begun,”
― E.J. Copperman, Written Off

“He couldn’t answer me (the ghosts’ voices didn’t make it through telephones), but he could hear what I said. I felt like I was talking to myself, which was only about the seventeenth weirdest thing I’d done today. And it was just two in the afternoon. “She’s”
― E.J. Copperman, Night of the Living Deed

“How am I supposed to know?” Paul answered. “You think they give us a handbook? We died, and when we woke up, we were here. There’s no welcome wagon.” “What?”
― E.J. Copperman, Night of the Living Deed

“Dating is complicated when you have dead people in your house.”
― E.J. Copperman, The Thrill of the Haunt

“They won’t know I’m with you,” he persisted. “I can be a trick-or-treater.” I would have laughed if my stomach hadn’t been in knots. “Dressed as a contractor in his mid-thirties?” I asked.”
― E.J. Copperman, Night of the Living Deed

“more research with Richard,” Paul said, shaking off my weirdness. “He’s more likely to listen to me.” Actually, in my experience, Richard was less likely to listen to Paul and more likely to listen to himself telling Paul what to do. “I don’t think so,” I said. “I think there’s someone who could do it better.” Paul’s eyebrows, which had returned to their traditional position, rose. “Really.” “Yes. Liss, would you see if Maxie is up in your room, and if she is, ask her to come down here?” Melissa put her glass in the sink and walked toward the kitchen door. “I was going up to change anyway,” she said. She smiled privately. “One more day.” And she was gone. Paul regarded me carefully. “Maxie?” he asked. “Best possible solution. She’s not related to Richard, she has no feelings about him in any direction, and he’s seen that she’s good with research, so she’ll be asking him on a professional basis. The trick is going to be selling it to her.” Paul stayed very still for a moment, which I know is not easy for him to do; the ghosts are sort of ethereal, not really ever being solidly in one place or position. Then he held up a hand, palm out. “Very solid reasoning,” he said. Maxie, wearing the trench coat that indicated she had her laptop with her—nobody was getting that thing away from her now—dropped down through the ceiling and landed in the middle of the center island. I was just glad she hadn’t ended up in the middle of food. “Melissa says you were looking for me,” she said. The trench coat vanished, and sure enough”
― E.J. Copperman, The Hostess with the Ghostess

“Melissa looked at her. “It’s a meeting with a killer, Grandma,” she said. “You don’t have to worry about manners.”
― E.J. Copperman, An Uninvited Ghost

“told her I might write about fictional intrigue and murder”
― E.J. Copperman, Chance of a Ghost

“murderers tend to be violent, unpredictable people, and I find it comforting to stay away from such types.”
― E.J. Copperman, Old Haunts

“I didn’t care who was hot, if they weren’t hot for the father of our country.”
― E.J. Copperman, Night of the Living Deed

“I used to wonder why people made New Jersey jokes. I don't anymore.”
― E.J. Copperman, An Uninvited Ghost

“to myself about reintroducing my mother to vowels, I texted back a very clear “WHAT?”
― E.J. Copperman, Chance of a Ghost

“Frankly, the whole afterlife didn’t seem very well organized, in my opinion.”
― E.J. Copperman, Old Haunts

“Kerin was wearing the most casual of high-end clothes, not exactly a jogging suit but something that clearly could be used during exercise, yet had cost as much as my television. She had no doubt just arrived on her way home from the fitness center at Buckingham Palace. “Kerin!”
― E.J. Copperman, Night of the Living Deed