What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

“Something was bleeding… and something was broken. It was my heart… because I had to leave you. (Chase to Rayne)”

— Kimberly Brockman

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort

“Memory is a haunting.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

— Wade Davis

“Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase? The one…

— James Caskey

Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you.…

— Todd McFarlane

It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling…

— Sarah Dessen

Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now…

— Lani Guinier

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

“All her memories have a fragile nature to them. She needed it to be that way to fool herself and everyone else in the…

— Chloe Gong

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that…

— Carrie Brownstein

“Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man…

— John Steinbeck

My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting…

— Joyce Tenneson

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways.…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan