Robin Hoff: Alice Freeze

Quotes 

• Varges De La Cosa : May I have some time to speak with you, Alice?

  Alice Freeze : Please. I'm your mortician. You can confide me as if I were your barber.

• Varges De La Cosa : How do you do it? You keep such joy in this job.

  Alice Freeze : I've got everything - career of my dreams, great location, wonderful clients...

  Varges De La Cosa : Doesn't anything ever bring you despair?

  Alice Freeze : I see a whole lot of different people in my work and let me tell you... most of 'em are afraid of ever being happy. Sometimes I think they got it in their minds that God himself is looking down on us and if he sees too much joy in our life, he hits 'em with a dirt clod, so they stay unhappy just so God will pass 'em by.

  Varges De La Cosa : It makes no sense, huh? To be unhappy to prepare yourself in case you are unhappy.

  Alice Freeze : That's it in a nutshell. You see, you've got to stop listening to that dark hum that sticks in your gut like fried food and start listening to the wind and chuckles from outside and the sunshine. So... what did you want to talk about.

  Varges De La Cosa : ...I forgot now - thanks to you.