Ghost Quotes - Page 10

• A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

  Hope Mirrlees

  House, Needs, Furniture

  Hope Mirrlees (2007). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC

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• Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all. I wondered whether they had books about his sort of thing. Fifty Ways to Tell the Living from the Dead Before You Wind Up in a Padded Room. Yep, I'm sure the library carried that one.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Book, Kids

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• I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.

  Paul Auster

  World, Sometimes, Walks

  Paul Auster (2013). “Day/Night: Travels in the Scriptorium and Man in the Dark”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Haunting, Let Him Go, Hardy

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.432, St. Martin's Press

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• Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

  Jacques Derrida

  Cinema, Plus, Psychoanalysis

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• Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

  Stephen King

  Son, Scrooge, Saws

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses play...Ghosts dare not enter here.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Animal, Play

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• It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat)

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Twenties, Murder

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• I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming.

  Ann Aguirre

  Light, Waiting, Promise

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.23, Penguin

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• You are a ghost, Andi," she says. "Almost gone." I look at her. I want to say something but I can't get the words out. She squeezes my hands. "Come back to us," she says. And she's gone.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Hands, Want, Looks

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.86, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

  Gaston Leroux

  Hands, Twenties, Opera

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• A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Girl, Two, Marble

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.41, eBookIt.com

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• Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Strong, Memories, Years

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• I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how to figure out what they mean. I can't tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Memories, Ocean, Mean

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.188, Penguin

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• Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?

  David Mitchell

  Regret, Giving, Doe

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• Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Moving, Sight

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• we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

  Stephen King

  Ghost Stories, Needs, Facts

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. The third in place of a signature, was a lightning bolt surrounded by fog. Beside the drawing, someone had scrawled in inch-high letters 10 A.M. Tori snatched it from me and turned it over. "So where's the message?" "Right there." I pointed from picture to picture. "It says: Chloe, I'll be back, Simon.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fog, Drawing, Signatures

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• ... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Rain, Tonight

  1923 Harp-Weaver and Other Poems,'Sonnet19: What lips my lips have kissed'.

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• Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

  Gabrielle Zevin

  People, Scare, Attention

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Country, Father

  "Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen".

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• You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Waiting, Tears, Irony

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.313, Macmillan

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• ‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Dream, Integrity, Reading

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• Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.

  Nora Roberts

  Benches, Want, Parks

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Last Boyfriend”, p.40, Penguin

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• Dont talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Kids, Mistaken

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