Ghost Quotes - Page 12

• Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Children, Lying, Spring

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics

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• But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.

  Stephen King

  Artist, People, Actors

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Half”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

  Edith Wharton

  Flower, Sunrise, Arms

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1992, Delphi Classics

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• I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Beautiful, Knowing

  "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar". Book by Cheryl Strayed, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2012.

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• I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.

  Meg Cabot

  Cowboy, Soul, Bedroom

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.166, Pan Macmillan

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• Sweet bleedin’ Christ,” Bones interrupted. “Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we’re already turning away spooks by the dozen. If you want another pet, we’ll get you more cats.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sweet, Cat, Pet

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• For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Memories, Past, Identity

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Needs, World, Enough

  Derrick Belanger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural”, p.215, Andrews UK Limited

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• She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Inconsequential

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• A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible.

  Richard Siken

  Kids, Tables, Invisible

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• Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.

  Tana French

  Couple, Cutting, Forever

  Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.

  Patricia Briggs

  Moon, People, Werewolf

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.20, Penguin

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• What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can’t be real.

  Megan Hart

  Real, Angel, Demon

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• But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Feelings, Events, Lifetime

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 5 (1850)

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• But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full dazzle, with so much loss to mock it. Roger gone, Craig gone, Cesar gone, Stevie gone. And this feeling that I'm the last one left, in a world where only the ghosts still laugh. But at least they're the ghosts of full-grown men, proof that all of us got that far, free of the traps and the lies. And from that moment on the brink of summer's end, no one would ever tell me again that men like me couldn't love.

  Paul Monette

  Love, Summer, Memories

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• In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

  Adam Johnson

  People, Forever, Range

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• In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Believe, Aspect, Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.208, Scholastic UK

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• How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Hate, Heart

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Some burns," Clary said. "Nothing that matters" "Everything that happens to you matters to me." "Well that certainly explains why you haven't called me back once. And the last time I saw you, you ran away without telling me why. It's like dating a ghost." Jace's mouth quirked up slightly at the side. "Not exactly. Isabelle actually dated a ghost. She could tell you--" "No," Clary said. "It was a metaphor. And you know exactly what I mean.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Dating, Saws

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1485, Simon and Schuster

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• Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded. "Mithras was born from rock," Annabeth said, hoping she was right. "He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch." The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly. "The big mother knows all!" a ghost cried. "That is our most closely guarded secret!" Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Rocks, Secret

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• It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.

  Emma Forrest

  Falling In Love, Heart, Thinking

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• This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.

  Pete Wentz

  Hands, Wish, Monsters

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• Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

  Paullina Simons

  Sorrow, Ecstasy, Whole Life

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• I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

  Michael Ondaatje

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• There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.

  George R. R. Martin

  Said

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.856, Bantam

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