There are stories about winter ghosts found tangles like…

There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they…

— Kelly Link

“Then, just at the peak of complacency, when it was assumed that the climate of the world had changed forever, when the conductor of…

— Mark Helprin

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you…

— Henry Miller

“People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes out, but…

— Henry Miller

“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