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“Paint ghosts over everything, the sadness of everything. We made ourselves cold. We made ourselves snow. We smuggled ourselves into ourselves. Haunted by each others knowledge. To hide somewhere is...”
“Don't tell me how to grieve. Don't tell me ghosts fade away eventually, like they do in movies, waving goodbye with see-through hands. Lots of things fade away but ghosts like these don't, heartbre...”
“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.""I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly."Some people can't see the color red. That doe...”
“There's a queer streak in human natures. Men come back to places for secret reasons, for feelings they cannot resist.'More than men come back, I said.”
“It's a rotten world, Miss Millick,' said Mr. Wran, talking at the window. 'Fit for another morbid growth of superstition. It's time the ghosts, or whatever you call them, took over and began a rule...”
“Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world. One's very instincts rebel at the admission of such maddening possibility. For, once the initia...”
“Never forget that time is the most valuable thing we can spend, so don't throw it away!”
“Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?”
“I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?”
“By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.(Joshua Malina, Sports Night)”
“And maybe that's all a ghost is, in the end. Regret, grown legs, gone walking.”
“So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.”
“But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.”
“When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I don't know what to make of it, just write it like I tell it, so the reader can m...”
“The fact that ghosts are real doesn't surprise me-I've always been a believer in that area. It's the realization that there may be something out there, something most can't see, that is able to kill.”
“So you know you're a ghost?" I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. "Can you think of another explanation?”
“Hauntingly active as they share space with the living, the dead refuse to give up their undead residency.”
“I wish my talent was something that could be celebrated. You see, I can talk to the dead.”
“It took a pair of ghosts to open my eyes.”
“Calm down. Ghosts dont ring the doorbell.”
