Ghost Quotes - Page 9

• What I do know is that I can't hurt a ghost. I wish I could fall in love with Ann Stuart. I wish I could wed her and bed her and have children with her. I wish I could fill that huge house with little spirit children who would live forever and never die.

  Jude Deveraux

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Children

  Jude Deveraux (2012). “Someone to Love”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Jobs, Believe, Reality

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.185, Penguin

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• Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

  Charles de Lint

  Stupid, Dull Life, People

  Charles de Lint (2003). “From a Whisper to a Scream”, p.103, Macmillan

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• Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Voice, Savages

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• I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here, when you're just a ghost of the past or a dream from another life, it's easier then.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Past, Missing

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• No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.

  Gaston Leroux

  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Gaston Leroux (2015). “The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance”, p.110, 谷月社

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• There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?

  Rachel Caine

  House, Pissed Off, Spirit

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.133, Penguin

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• Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Hope, Heart

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• And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

  George Sterling

  Atheism, World, Tenure

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• A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Real, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.162, Broadview Press

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• Was it like this? (Jesse) (Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.) That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sound, Noise, Bones

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• The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sun, Come Up, Best Times

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

  John Green

  Notebook, Dream, Memories

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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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, Haunting

  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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• Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes of books that can be closed and put on the shelf or left behind at a bed and breakfast; they clench their eyes shut, so they will see no evil. But trust me when I tell you that the zebra is real. Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

  Garth Stein

  Zebras, Real, Book

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

  Walker Percy

  Angel, Men, Self

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• Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the noonday's warm sunshine To living lads for mirth and wine. I met you suddenly down the street, Strangers assume your phantom faces, You grin at me from daylight places, Dead, long dead, I'm ashamed to greet Dead men down the morning street.

  Robert Graves

  Morning, Wine, Sunshine

  Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

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• He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Trying, Danger, Middle

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.219, Penguin Group

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• 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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