Quote by Penelope Lively Download Open image ““Far as I'm concerned, they're all still here, like a lot of dear little ghosts.”” — Penelope Lively ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We were nothing but a bunch of ravenous ghosts. The barely living dead.” — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“I think I might like to meet some ghosts. The dead aren't scary. It's the living who do the terrifying things.” — Suki Fleet Copy Share Image
“The fact that you and I are acquaintances only interested and amused the ghosts further. Gossip bunch, really.” — August Westman Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their ghosts; it's just a matter of knowing how to ignore them.” — Maurizio de Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Her ghosts had been with her, as ever, but they hadn't sat so close.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“There's this thing about ghosts: Once you've seen one, you can basically see them all. At least the ones that want to be seen.” — Chris Grabenstein Copy Share Image
“Thing is, I don’t believe in ghosts. But I see them all the time.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“There were so many ghosts in our house...And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn't even met yet.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Some ghosts just want a little attention. Some have unfinished business that they need to work through, emotions they have to process. A few..."… — Dani Harper Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian… It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image