“I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood.”

“I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...”

“These were the things we would never notice were missing.”

“The diamonds glinted under the glare of the chandelier and they looked like a thousand spider eyes”

“The chandelier was wearing on its rubber support and the crack at the side of the ceiling hold was getting bigger. One day thats going to fall on us and spear you through the heart, he said. I turn...”

“In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasnt moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make...”

“Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.”

“Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.”

“Carroll was eleven years old when he saw The Haunting in The Oregon Theater. He had gone with his cousins, but when the lights went down, his companions were swallowed by the dark and Carroll found...”

“In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasnt moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make...”

“It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces.”

“I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?”

“But this time as soon as he moved she began to fade. He stopped at once, not breathing again, motionless, willing his eyes to see that she had stopped too. But she had not stopped. She was fading, ...”

“Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried...”

“It was all real and blazing with detail. But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper.”