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“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.”
“He wasnt gullible enough to be bullied by the ghosts accusation for Andrew Fletcher had his share of guilt, but hed never thrown anyone down a well, either.”
“If you mean to scare women away from you, that speech cant possibly work. Those threats? If I werent trying to hire you Id be taking my clothes off right now.”
“In my experience, people who want to keep their painful injuries are using them as a crutch. Theyre hiding from something.”
“Theres a little angel on one of my shoulders saying that this is a wicked thing to do. Then theres a little devil on my other shoulder, and she looks a lot like you.”
“Shed wanted Randall Parks from the moment her hormones kicked in. Her best friend, her guardian when things got rough, her knight in somewhat-rusted and dinged up armorhe wore many hats in her life...”
“Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing")”
“I didn't sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren't here, haunting with their memory.”
“When you stop chasing your dreams, your dreams start chasing you.”
“Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.”
“No weekends for the gods now. Warsflicker, earth licks its open sores,fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chanceassassinations, no advance.Only man thinning out his own kindsounds through the Sabbath...”
“The Idea of Ghost, like the Idea of North. A mere looped whisper, in darkness or in light. And no matter what this person may have been like before he or she died, no matter what they--specifically...”
“We did a Tarotcard reading. She told me different things, most of them depressing andworth forgetting. But what I'll always remember is her prediction of mydeath, and how I'd become a kind of ghost...”
“Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers.”
“Theres a ghost of a dream that you dont even try to shake free off because youre too in love with the way she haunts you.”
“She was our guardian angel. Lucy saved us from mystery. Without her, our marriage would be ruined. Her disappearance created an open wound that we can't fix but the most devasting reality is probab...”
“If anyone views himself as being totally perfect in the actual sense of the word, he is undoubtedly imperfect in God's eyes. For the thought alone is one of presumption, impurity and imperfection. ...”
“Hello? I ask. No one is there. Not a word. Not a whisper. Not a single sound resonating from the other side of the receiver. Hello? Anyone there? I ask again. Repeating myself. I am beginning to fe...”
