Ghost Quotes
1154 quotes by 732 authors
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Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that…
— Henrik Ibsen
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You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not…
— Nora Roberts
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Dont talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.
— Kelley Armstrong
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He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to…
— Joe Hill
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But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.
— Suzanne Collins
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It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at…
— Ray Bradbury
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Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á ……
— Kelley Armstrong
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Nothing screws up a séance like the appearance of a real ghost. ~Jaime Vegas
— Kelley Armstrong
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I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there’s some…
— Kelley Armstrong
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The ghost of a smile flickered across his lips. ‘You’re always the voice of reason. Just try listening to yourself once in a while.
— Richelle Mead
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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
— George Orwell
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Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
— Elizabeth Wein
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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.
— Kristin Hannah
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Ford put a hand to his head. “Back up. Back up!†he cried. “You’re too close.†Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between…
— Kim Harrison
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Maybe I could be friends with a ghost. I wouldn’t be able to kill him.
— Kim Harrison
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