Ghosts Quote by Julie Buntin

“What a nice thing to say," Mom said, standing up a little straighter, as if she'd been watered. Marlena's manners were unpracticed, but she…

— Julie Buntin

“Sometimes I wonder how I’d tell this if I didn’t have so many books rattling around inside me. The truth is both a vast…

— Julie Buntin

“It took her years to come around, to see what I saw- that Liam was a man who would only leave if your forced…

— Julie Buntin

“One of us fell easily asleep, a million days left except that particular one, forever almost over, an ending that happens again and again…

— Julie Buntin

“I think it’s pretty common for teenagers to fantasize about dying young. We knew that time would force us into sacrifices—we wanted to flame…

— Julie Buntin

“Great loneliness, profound isolation, a cataclysmic, overpowering sense of being misunderstood. When does that kind of deep feeling just stop? Where does it go?…

— Julie Buntin

“Everyone has a secret life. But when you're a girl with a best friend, you think your secret life is something you can share.”

— Julie Buntin

“Marlena's body was found on November 19, and so I consider that the anniversary of her death, though she almost certainly died on the…

— Julie Buntin

“You can’t steal a whole new life.”

— Julie Buntin

“But having lied and stolen, doesn't mean you're a liar and a thief,...”

— Julie Buntin

“Who can recognize the ending as it’s happening? What we live, it seems to me, is pretty much always a surprise.”

— Julie Buntin

“Why do I keep doing this? Making her out to be more than what she was, grander, omniscient even, lovely and unreal. She could…

— Julie Buntin