I have a wonderful disposition, I put people right at ease.
Uh, Miss Devoto, there people are already at ease. This is not a beauty parlour. It's a funeral parlour.
They're dead?
Yes they are.
Stiffs?
Deceased.
Now, the first rule in applying eye make-up is you can never wear enough blue eye shadow.
That's a pretty ring you're wearing (looks at Vada's mood ring)
It's a mood ring. It tells me what mood i'm in.
It doesn't work, it always stays black.
It's only black when you're around, because you put me in a bad mood.
Maybe black means you're happy?
I don't think so. Shelly how can I get $35?
She's crazy, She wants to go to school over the summer.
It's not a real school, it's a writing class. I want to be a writer.
She just wants to go just because her sweetie pie's her teacher.
Shut your big fat mouth!
I think you'll make a fine writer. Have you asked your dad?
My mommy and daddy did that?
It's actually a very beautiful thing. And look, there wouldn't've been a Vada.
I think it should be outlawed. (doorbell rings) Oh, that's probably Thomas J. I don't wanna see him.[On menstruation] It's not fair. Nothing happens to boys.
Hi Vada. Can you come out?
I don't know.
Please, it's real hot, maybe we can go swimming.
No! [Shoving Thomas J off her porch after getting her first period] Get outta here! And don't come back for five to seven days!
She won't come out! It's been a whole day. You have to do something, Harry!
The funeral's starting!
Open your eyes! She's 11 years old! Her only friend in the world is dead!
I know that, but what do you want from me?
Stop hiding, Harry! You run, Harry. When I first came here, the idea of working with dead people didn't exactly thrill me. When I saw that a family lived here, I thought if I'm living without a family, then at least I can work with one and maybe, once in a while, be invited in for supper.
Yeah - and when those suppers are disrupted because there's a car crash, or there's a fire, or a little boy steps on a beehive!...
I'm not asking you to stop caring for those people! But life isn't just death, Harry! Don't ignore the living... especially your daughter.
