City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“Whispers crept through the silence, disturbing the peace of an unoccupied mind.”

— Caroline Noe

“This was crazy. Celeste had merely said her relatives would love to have her stay with them, they had plenty of room. She hadn’t…

— Shelley Noble

“It's all about the writing, and of course, the ghosts.”

— Debi Chestnut

“Then he left her there, standing along, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”

— Kristin Hannah

“Lockwood didn’t speak until everything was quiet again. “I know you’re worrying about me, Luce,” he said. “But you really mustn’t. These things happen…

— Jonathan Stroud

“Something happened when the house was dark. They were able to talk to each other again.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Just a whisper. I hear it in my ghost.”

— Motoko Kusanagi ⎯ Ghost in the Shell (1995

“Nothing need be said; nothing could be said. There it was, all round them. It partook, she felt, carefully helping Mr. Bankes to a…

— Virginia Woolf

“They sensed that nothing needed to be said. In silence, minds understand each other.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“There are no coincidences. Only doors you didn't have the courage to walk through. only blind spots you weren't brave enough to see. Only…

— Sara Gran

“It was past dark when I reached the city and I’d mostly shoved my ghosts back into their graves. I let the gray mare…

— Deborah Wheeler

“She imagined people picking up the newspapers she dropped through their doors, reading about a world they never visited. For the first time it…

— Catherine O'Flynn