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“With what characters she had filled this lost stage of emptiness! It was here that she would see the people of her imagination, the…

— Mervyn Peake

“I was following a phantom in my mind, whose shadowy form had taken shape at last. Her features were blurred, her coloring indistinct, the…

— Daphne du Maurier

“She was seeking herself and finding herself in just such sweet, half-darkness which met her moods. But the voices were not soothing that came…

— Kate Chopin

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.”

— Stuart Jaffe

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence…

— Orson Scott Card

“Yes, she thinks, this probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It’s a little like reading, isn’t it—that same sensation of knowing…

— Michael Cunningham

“often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among the living,…

— Virginia Wolf

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin

“These are the multiple shadows because there were a lot of things she walked away from without a word of explanation when she was…

— Brian Andreas

“She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these last few…

— Anna Quindlen