Haunting Quotes - Page 5

• The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.

  Jim Morrison

  Evil, World, Path

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• It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sleep, Night, Voice

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.101, Penguin

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• And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Survivor, Tools

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• And I start to say, no. Start to ask him to please just take it off and put it away. Start to explain how it holds far too many memories for me. But then I remember what Damen said once about memories - that they're haunting things. And because I refuse to be haunted by mine - I just take a deep breath and smile when I say, "You know, I think it looks really good on you. You should defiantly keep it.

  Alyson Noel

  Memories, Thinking, Looks

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• We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.

  Nalini Singh

  Two, Broken, Pieces

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.895, Penguin

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• Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Insanity, Insane

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Wall, Memories, Yield

  Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Algernon Blackwood: Premium 11 Novels Collection (Jimbo, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Human Chord, The Centaur, The Promise of Air, The Garden of Survival, The Bright Messenger and more)”, p.718, e-artnow

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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

  Ghost, 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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• The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

  Ann Brashares

  Afar, Way, Accepted

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• Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)

  Norman Doidge

  Past, Important Relationships, Becoming

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.243, Penguin

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• You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Responsibility, Years, Trying

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• Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

  Loretta Chase

  Book, Shadow, Skins

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• An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word.

  Micol Ostow

  Girl, Confused, Stories

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• I've always been attracted to the idea of ghosts being memories frozen in time, that a psychological haunting can be just as terrifying as a supernatural one.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Memories, Ideas, Frozen

  Source: dailydead.com

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• Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

  Elin Hilderbrand

  Life, Regret, What If

  Elin Hilderbrand (2014). “The Matchmaker”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

  Eleanor Catton

  Girl, School, Loner

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• Strangely enough, it wasn’t Gabe who was haunting my thoughts, though. That job belonged to a pair of sinfully black eyes that had lost their edge when they studied me, turning as soft and sultry as silk.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Jobs, Eye, Black

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Be sure to ‘notice’ ideas when you have them. Stop. Take the time to consider them seriously. And if your gut tells you they're compelling, be fearless in their pursuit . we live life only once. So, rather than avoiding the risk of trying, avoid the risk of not trying. Nothing is more haunting than thinking, ‘I wish I had’.

  Tim Westergren

  Live Life, Thinking, Ideas

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• The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

  Laura Miller

  Past, Determined, Chance

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• Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.

  Lani Guinier

  Book, School, Loss

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• Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry is a sharp-eyed, engaging writer, and she deftly captures the terrors, ruptures and intimacies of one seemingly ordinary neighborhood, always finding a precarious beauty in her characters' lives. This is a book that is terrifying, startling, and very hard to put down.

  Rebecca Godfrey

  Powerful, Book, Character

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• Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

  Daniel Breaker

  Midwest, Eccentric, Firsts

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• The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Years, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.48, Beacon Press

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• A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Book, Heart, Years

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• I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains echoes of all that has been great about Straub's previous work and builds upon it. This Rashomon-like tale is as spooky and frightening as anything he has written, but it's also an intense and moving celebration of love. Out of the darkness comes, ultimately, a surprising and haunting sense of joy.

  Dan Chaon

  Teenager, Reading, Moving

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