Ghosts Quotes

423 Ghosts quotes by 324 unique authors

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply. — Arthur Conan Doyle
She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams. — Libba Bray
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
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
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
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
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
In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves. — Laurie Halse Anderson
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
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
Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow. — Paullina Simons
I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts. — Michael Ondaatje
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
There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go. — George R. R. Martin
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them… — Anna Quindlen
You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds… — Hilary Mantel
Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them. — Sue Grafton
Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who… — Stephen King
Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind."… — Christina Baker Kline
Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided. — Maureen Johnson
Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do. — Alexandra Bracken
As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy London air, and… — Cassandra Clare
It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the… — Elizabeth Wein
Laura won’t hurt you,” I said, wrestling him for control. “She’s one of the sweetest ghosts I ever met. She just likes to play.” “Yeah,… — Karen Chance
...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all. — Laurell K. Hamilton

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