258 quotes found
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted,One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMaterial place.Far safer, of a midnight meetingExternal ghost,Than an interior confrontingThat whit...”
“Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.”
“No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. Theyre the real ghosts.”
“Memories come back, pressing in on you, like ghost faces in the darkness pushing up the glass, trying to get into the lit room.”
“How many ghosts might return to the promenade, haunted by the echoes of those promises, perhaps eager to catch a glimpse of what could have been? Would they laugh at the survivors shuffling about i...”
“I don't believe in the white spectre-type of ghosts you get in stories, but what if ghosts are something else? Like memories somehow caught and trapped in time, released by being in certain places ...”
“The whispers you hear in your ear that you fear in the air everywhere,they are ghosts.The moans and the groans in the lowest of tones no one owns or condones, they are ghosts.You might deem them gr...”
“But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad ...”
“I think in some ways 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 i...”
“Ghosts will forever put in appearances, as they should. Our illusions have muscle and meaning. The past returns at midnight, in the heart of our dreams, and the rains and the willows forever remind...”
“knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question”
“Areila walked like she had somewhere to go. I stood by the fountain and watched her pass, but I didn't speak. It was the lady's prerogative to pretend she didn't see me. She got to the edge of the ...”
“And the bummer thing is, ghosts never leave. They might leave you alone sometimes, but they're always there deep down, whispering lies in your ear. They echo the lies others told you: That you're n...”
“This is what the Problem means, he went on. This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones taken before their time. And then we hide our dead behind iron walls and leave them to the thorns and i...”
“Lockwood didnt speak until everything was quiet again. I know youre worrying about me, Luce, he said. But you really mustnt. These things happen when youre an agent. Youve been snared by ghosts in ...”
“But ghosts aren't white and bright. Ghosts are shadows of someone or something gone wrong.”
“A high-pitched sound, like steam escaping from a kettle whistles through the dark room. But nobodys making tea. We both turn toward the source of the eerie noise.A weak stream of unearthly light se...”
“When I look up from my book, the wind has gained its full voice. This storm is the mad child of Father Time and Mother Nature. Wailing away in no predictable rhythm, their monstrous offsprings thro...”
“What are you going to fill it with?" she asks. "Holy water or something?" "Probably Dasani," Thomas replies.”
“Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.”
