Ghost Quotes - Page 40

• There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Heartbroken, Lonely, Spirit

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.554, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind." "Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn the corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles." "The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

  Maureen Johnson

  Thinking, Years, People

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.131, Penguin

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• Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Memories, People, Ruby Daly

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “Never Fade”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.

  Gena Showalter

  Angel, Trials, Term

  Gena Showalter (2013). “Alice in Zombieland”, p.299, Harlequin

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• What do I look like, the ghost whisperer? They're loony. I'd have better luck talking to my cousin Alfonso's Chihuahua. At least Tía Juana knows Spanish." "Your cousin's Chihuahua is named Tía Juana?

  Darynda Jones

  Cousin, Talking, Luck

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.517, St. Martin's Press

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• As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy London air, and remembered another night, a night of ghosts and snow and Christmas music, and Will standing on the steps of the Institute, watching Magnus as he went.

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Air, Christmas Music

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• It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Fall, Oxygen, Paper

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.51, Egmont UK

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• What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls!

  Kerstin Gier

  Girl, Mean, Heirs

  Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.15, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here. Now it's a whisper from the past. Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice?

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Writing, Past

  Margaret Atwood (2013). “MaddAddam: Book 3 of The MaddAddam Trilogy”, p.282, Anchor

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• Laura won’t hurt you,” I said, wrestling him for control. “She’s one of the sweetest ghosts I ever met. She just likes to play.” “Yeah, I bet. With my bones, if I had any!” “She isn’t like that!” “Sure. ’Cause when the innocent little girl shows up in a horror flick, it’s always a good thing!

  Karen Chance

  Girl, Hurt, Wrestling

  Karen Chance (2013). “Tempt the Stars: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• ...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Memories, Doe, Needs

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• I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

  Steven Herrick

  Swamps, Weeping Willows, Weeping

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• Hazel frowned. "Why that one?" "You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked. "Ghost?" Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Hades, Okay

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• There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.

  Peter Rollins

  Dream, Memories, Night

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• If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

  Sharon Needles

  Strong Women, Applause, Stage

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• Red of the Dawn
  Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay
  The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Freedom, Dawn, Red

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• The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Truth, Lying, Passion

  "An Autobiography and Other Essays". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, 1949.

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• Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave
  Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot;
  Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit,
  Where long ago a giant battle was;
  And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass
  In every place where infant Orpheus slept.
  Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept
  Into a sort of oneness, and our state
  Is like a floating spirit's. But there are
  Richer entanglements, enthralments far
  More self-destroying, leading, by degrees,
  To the chief intensity: the crown of these
  Is made of love and friendship, and sits high
  Upon the forehead of humanity.

  John Keats

  Life, Feet, Self

  John Keats, “Endymion: Book I”

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• The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.

  John Updike

  Fall, Autumn, Grieving

  John Updike, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1989). “A Child's Calendar”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

  Aaron Huey

  God, Tired, Government

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• If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Kindness, Exercise, Remembrance

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• The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Martin Luther (1830). “A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.402

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• Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

  Loren Eiseley

  Men, Continents, Every Man

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• True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Moving, Grace, Would Be

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2001). “The Soul-Winner”, p.8, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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