Author Quote by Jennifer Irwin

“No substitute for the living, perhaps, but I wasn’t given a choice. I could take solace in their presence or I could fall down…

— Christina Baker Kline

“But the problem was that I had retreated so far into myself - shielding myself from the ghosts and memories of this place -…

— Jeremy Jackson

“It was more likely the fear of emptiness, of being left alone in a shadow world when everyone else abandoned me, each for his…

— Ebba Haslund

“I have met ghosts who attract me, and, following my habit in the material world, I have avoided the ghosts that bore me.”

— Sidney Dark

“I wanted more than anything to connect to someone. I wanted to feel alive again. I just felt dead inside. I could understand how…

— J M Northup

“I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted…

— Roman Payne

“I was a ghost, a skeletal frame of bones and sweat, a distraction for a night, barely something to cling to in the dark,…

— Richard Thomas

“All my ghosts had vanished; the retribution that they sought had been exacted. I had nothing more to give, and nothing to fear.”

— Abraham Verghese

“It seemed to me that I was suddenly in the presence of incosolable, unavoidable, and immense pain. The thought of that death hunted me…

— Hélène Berr

“had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The house felt haunted, like only I understood the way all of our shadows, the ones we’d left, had seeped into the wood and…

— Ava Dellaira

“It was a really winding road that took me to all kinds of places. And it was difficult, and discouraging, and demoralizing, and scary,…

— Angela Duckworth