Ghost Quotes - Page 9

• Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.

  Rebecca Stead

  Mean, Dark, Light

  Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.160, Wendy Lamb Books

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• I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.

  Breece D'J Pancake

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

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• Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

  Anne Michaels

  World, Enough

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.78, A&C Black

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• A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Symphony, Singing, Dollars

  "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time".

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• Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Guy, Chloe

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• Bad dreams are ghosts of our fears and worries, haunting us while we sleep. I doubt Valek is in trouble.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Dream, Sleep, Worry

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

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• I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Thinking, Yesterday, Choices

  Rodman Philbrick (2012). “The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Eye, Dark

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.66, Vintage

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• When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Rose, Corn, Scene

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.150, Library of America

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• And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?

  Stan Rice

  Angel, Drag

  Stan Rice (1983). “Body of Work”, Lost Roads Pub

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• We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

  Khalil Gibran

  Farewell, Eye, Kissing

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• The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.

  Sara Zarr

  Loyalty, Together, Done

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• She looked around. "Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You!" And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. "And you." She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. "But not you," she decided, encountering the zombie.

  Piers Anthony

  Horse, Zombie, Hug

  Piers Anthony (1985). “Crewel lye: a caustic yarn”, Del Rey

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• Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.

  Laini Taylor

  Cat, Essence, Different

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.42, Scholastic Inc.

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• Do you have a camera?" Jackson asked. "We could get some pictures and may be take a print or two if we're lucky." Jonas shook his head. "We'd probably get a bunch of ghosts and that would just freak me out.

  Christine Feehan

  Two, Cameras, Lucky

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• In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

  Kate Chopin

  Eight, Soul, Twenties

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

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• The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but he is not entitled to repeated manifestations. After such a revelation is given, he is to act, for the Holy Ghost cannot be appealed to for continued manifestations until after baptism and the gift has been bestowed.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Baptism, Honest, Lord

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• IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Kings, Cat, Alaska

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• In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Made, Interest, Familiar

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.71, Bibliolis Books

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• Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

  Aldous Huxley

  Names, Only Time

  Aldous Huxley (1931). “The cicadas and other poems”

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• Our faith is concentrated in the Son of God, and through him in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is their minister to bring truths to our remembrance, to reveal new truths to us, and teach, guide, and direct the course of every mind, until we become perfected and prepared to go home, where we can see and converse with our Father in Heaven.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Home, Son

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.

  Charlaine Harris

  Eye, Dwelling, Depth

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.151, Penguin

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• Ghost?” St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. “Christ. You’re not serious, are you?” "I’m a Gypsy,” Cam replied matter-of-factly. “Of course I believe in ghosts.” “Only half Gypsy. Which led me to assume that the rest of you was at least marginally sane and rational.” “The other half is Irish,” Cam said a touch apologetically. “Christ,” St. Vincent said again, shaking his head as he strode away.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Believe, Half, Matter

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• This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

  Mitch Albom

  Ghost Stories, Long, Gone

  "For One More Day". Book by Mitch Albom, September 26, 2006.

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• He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world

  J. K. Rowling

  Sports, Sleep, Class

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