Ghost Quotes
1154 quotes by 732 authors
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Don’t you listen to them, Rexy,†I cooed, and the cat sniffed my nose. “Rachel is a smart girl. She’s not going to go out…
— Kim Harrison
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The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.
— Peter Straub
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We got an expression ride back to the palace of Hades. Nico sent word ahead, thanks to some ghost he summoned out of the ground,…
— Rick Riordan
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She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?
— Nora Roberts
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I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
— Jack Kerouac
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Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably:…
— Rick Riordan
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I waved my hand in front of my face, obi-wan style. "I am not here." Niall's mucas glands kicked into overdrive. "Eoin's dead! And his…
— Eoin Colfer
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Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was…
— Dodie Smith
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I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.
— Emilie Autumn
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No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force…
— Lorrie Moore
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So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some…
— John Green
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On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the…
— Shirley Jackson
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Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you grÃeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, lÃke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never…
— Stephen King
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He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at…
— Edith Wharton
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I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important…
— Cheryl Strayed
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I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of…
— Meg Cabot
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Sweet bleedin’ Christ,†Bones interrupted. “Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we’re already…
— Jeaniene Frost
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For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.
— Tan Twan Eng
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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