Ghost Quotes
1154 quotes by 732 authors
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She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.
— Libba Bray
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A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to…
— Richard Siken
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Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on…
— Tana French
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Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.
— Patricia Briggs
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What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can’t be real.
— Megan Hart
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But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full…
— Paul Monette
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
— Adam Johnson
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A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels,…
— Neil Gaiman
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In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Some burns," Clary said. "Nothing that matters" "Everything that happens to you matters to me." "Well that certainly explains why you haven't called me back…
— Cassandra Clare
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Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant music and happy…
— Rick Riordan
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Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded. "Mithras was born…
— Rick Riordan
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It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny…
— Emma Forrest
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This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are…
— Pete Wentz
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Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.
— Paullina Simons
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I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.
— Michael Ondaatje
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less…
— Judith Butler
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There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.
— George R. R. Martin
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