“Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.”

“You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.”

“Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her head slowly.Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.”

“In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.”

“Life could sometimes be grand.”

“Not everyone believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. "Men and women who cant get over the past, Aunt Evie said. Thats what ghosts are. Not t...”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”