“You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. I would compare it to a woman in the back of a lecture hall or theater whom no one notices until she slips out. Then only those near the door themselves, like an elderly person, notice; to the rest it is like an unexplained breeze in a closed room.” Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones