There is a terrible mystery around us...a mystery much…

“This is what the Problem means,” he went on. “This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones taken before their time. And…

— Jonathan Stroud

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

— Saoirse Ronan

They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here,…

— Dodie Smith

“I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way…

— Leanna Renee Hieber

“Before her escort could react, she sprinted out from their little pool of lantern-light into the darkness, her feet pounding the soft, treacherous clods…

— Frances Hardinge

Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.

— M. R. James

Many memories were long forgotten, and many became ghosts.

— Blackmore's Night

“I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.”

— Bella James

“A memory that costs you something," he said aloud, almost to himself. "One that hurts to remember. That makes you regret what you did…

— Daria Lavelle

“Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It wasn't so…

— Christopher Pike

“All right, you deadly little ghostlings,” I muttered. “Mama says go back to bed! - Cat”

— Jeaniene Frost

“One person's strange is another person's normal.”

— Dani Harper

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

— Patrick Modiano

“This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!”

— Kathy Bryson

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

— Alice Englert