Jody McGrath

“So animated are these freestanding hearts that surgeons have been known to drop them. “We wash them off and they do just fine,” replied New York heart transplant surgeon Mehmet Oz when I asked him about it. I imagined the heart slipping across the linoleum, the looks exchanged, the rush to retrieve it and clean it off, like a bratwurst that’s rolled off the plate in a restaurant kitchen.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“He nodded. “Someone really would get suspicious if they saw you roaming around. If I need you I’ll give you a signal.” “What signal?” “I’ll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl,” he said with a waggle of his eyebrows. He headed out the door. “Back in a minute.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse (and this I truly don’t recommend), you can hear them feeding. Arpad pinpoints the sound: “Rice Krispies.” Ron frowns. Ron used to like Rice Krispies.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven